Field day showcases latest crop research

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More than 140 farmers, educators, consultants and researchers viewed the latest Cornell grain and forage crop research at 2023 Musgrave Research Farm Field Day in Aurora, N.Y., August 3. “As leaders in agriculture research, it’s really important...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Musgrave Research Farm
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Soil
field day attendees viewing solar panels corn crop and researcher with poster

Floating an energy idea: Scientists study solar panel-topped ponds

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Steve Grodsky, assistant professor of natural resources, and a multidisciplinary team of researchers, soon will learn how solar panels placed on top of water bodies can affect the biology of aquatic systems.

  • Cornell Atkinson
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Microbiology
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Agrivoltaics
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Planet
  • Water
  • Natural Resources
Researchers place solar panels on the Cornell Experimental ponds

Rod Zeltmann, 50-year employee of Cornell AES, “pinnacle of reliability”

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For 50 years, Rod Zeltmann has been preparing fields, fixing equipment, helping researchers and supporting the agricultural community through his work as a field assistant at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center (LIHREC)...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Long Island Research & Extension Center
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Vegetables
  • Plants
  • Horticulture
Rod Zeltmann standing in front of a field of pumpkins

Alum partners with CALS through US Dairy’s Net Zero Initiative

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Noblehurst Farms , a seventh-generation, multi-family dairy farm co-owned by Rob Noble ’79, is helping shift the dairy industry toward greenhouse gas neutrality through an on-farm research partnership with Cornell CALS’ Nutrient Management Spear...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Agriculture
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Dairy
  • Soil
Two people standing in corn field.

Gene variation makes apple trees ‘weep,’ improving orchards

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Plant geneticists have identified a mutation in a gene that causes the “weeping” architecture – branches growing downwards – in apple trees, a finding that could improve orchard fruit production.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Agriculture
  • Genetics
  • Fruits
  • Crops
Kenong Xu stands in an orchard and measures a weeping apple branch in an orchard at Cornell AgriTech

Research farm managers McKay and Stachowski retire after 38, 32 years

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Two long-time research farm managers — with a combined 70 years of dedication to Cornell — retired this year, after careers spent facilitating research that has strengthened New York’s food system and agricultural industry. Steve McKay, former...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm
  • Musgrave Research Farm
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Vegetables
  • Plants
Cornell AES farm managers speaking with students