Novel Crop Varieties and Quality Seed for New York Growers

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Relevance In New York, farms cover about 20% of the total land area, with field crops and vegetables occupying a significant portion (49% of NY’s farmland; about $1.9 billion annual value). Cornell University's plant breeders play a crucial role...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Program for Research on Youth Development and Engagement

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Relevance The Program for Research on Youth Development and Engagement (PRYDE) project under the direction of Dr. Anthony Burrow, Director of PRYDE and the Bronfenbrenner Center for Translational Research (BCTR) in the College of Human Ecology...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Education to Improve Sanitation Verification in Food Manufacturing

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Relevance The Sanitation Verification Efficacy project addresses the problem of controlling cross-contamination during food manufacturing, highlighting the challenge of verifying sanitation efficacy. The project led by Abigail Snyder, Cornell...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Slash Walls Prevent Deer Impacts to Forest Regeneration

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Relevance Deer have exceeded the carrying capacity in most forested landscapes of NY and the Northeast. This has resulted in widespread failure of forests to regenerate as diverse and productive young forests that are necessary for multiple...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Growing Dryland Rice on Hilltop Community Farm

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Relevance CCE Tioga and Cornell University's School of Integrative Plant Science partnered to conduct research on the viability of growing rice on dry land. Several different rice varieties were planted and tended at CCE Tioga's Hilltop...
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Harvesting Dryland Rice

Hired labor on New York state dairy farms

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Hired labor plays a significant role on dairy farms, with more than 9,000 jobs provided by New York dairy farms in 2019. As farm size grows, hired employees provide a larger percentage of the labor required to operate the farm. In 2021, authors...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
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Trends in herd dynamics and production

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The 2024 business year was a higher earnings year on average across New York dairy farms that participated in the Dairy Farm Business Summary (DFBS), as noted in the 2024 DFBS Progress of the Dairy Farm Report. Strong milk prices and component...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
A dairy cow inside a barn

Cornell University Finalists for Ribas Piera Prize 2025

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We are thrilled to announce that Cornell Landscape Architecture has been named a finalist for the Ribas Piera International University Prize 2025, part of the 13th Barcelona International Landscape Biennial. The award ceremony will be held on...
  • Landscape Architecture
Ribas Finalist

New York golf courses benefit economy, environment

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Co-authored by the Cornell Turfgrass Program, the New York Golf Economic & Environmental Impact Report documents how the state’s golf courses provide both recreational and ecological values. The in-depth analysis tracks environmental protection...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
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Agricultural Human Resourced Leadership Development Program

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Sustainable farms need an effective workforce led by managers with strong leadership skills. We developed an intensive supervisory development program composed of online learning that leads to a certificate.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Corn silage: rain following dry conditions

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This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist Joe Lawrence was shared in the September 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. The 2025...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
drought stressed corn

Urban Agriculture and Civic Engagement

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The Urban Agriculture and Civic Engagement Project addressed the need for enhanced civic engagement and STEM learning among youth through urban agriculture in New York City. Recognizing the potential of urban agriculture to foster students’...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Garden plots located in New York City.

Local Food Fuels School Cafeterias and Students

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Farm to school programs in K-12 schools and early care and education sites engage young people in hands-on learning and empower school nutrition professionals to source and promote healthy, local food for school meal programs. Program design...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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NYC Choose Health Action Teens (CHAT) Capacity Building

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Purpose Introducing projects focused on nutrition and healthy living in youth community programming is crucial in combating the prevalence of diabetes, heart disease, and stroke in adulthood. CUCE-NYC has addressed this need by implementing the...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Training NY Residents to be Community Climate Stewards

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The Cornell Climate Stewards Program trains NYS residents on the science, impacts, and solutions to climate change – so that they can support municipalities taking part in NYS Climate Smart Communities – and helps residents plan and implement...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
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Building a Network to Monitor Deer Impacts to Forest Regeneration

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White-tailed deer significantly impact seedling growth and forest regeneration in much of the eastern United States. Regeneration data are only collected at 20% of field sites annually by US Forest Service staff and are not useful for setting...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
Young deer hiding in the forest

Late season forage considerations for 2025

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This fact sheet authored by PRO-DAIRY forage systems specialist Joe Lawrence was shared in the August 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and legislators. The challenges...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
drought stressed corn

Comparing New York dairy farm earnings

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PRO-DAIRY business management specialists Jason Karszes, Lainey Koval and Mary Kate MacKenzie shared these reports in the August 2025 PRO-DAIRY e-Leader newsletter, distributed to an email list of nearly 7,000 dairy producers, agriservice, and...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
A dairy cow inside a barn

Wine or cider can liner terminology – precision matters!

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A case study on the importance of terminology: A canned beverage producer received and used cans from a supplier without issues over multiple months of storage. However, without warning, several runs of cans in 2024 showed evidence of hydrogen...
  • Food Science
  • Viticulture and Enology
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