Dyson alumnus brings lively new energy to Finger Lakes goat dairy

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Dave Messmer ’17 has been learning a thing or two about dairy farming since he was six years old. Now, almost 25 years later, he is putting that knowledge to work at a new level as co-owner of Lively Run Goat Dairy in Interlaken, New York. In...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Agriculture
  • Food
  • Dairy
  • Applied Economics
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Cornell program celebrates 50 years of nutrition education

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Nutrition educators from across New York state joined Cooperative Extension staff and university faculty June 17-18 for a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program.
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Food
  • Health + Nutrition
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Program expands to help Latin American growers

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The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Produce Safety Alliance has recently expanded its efforts in order to help Latin American growers adhere to U.S. federal safety regulations.
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Do more for birds, not less, Rodewald tells Congress

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Amanda Rodewald, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s senior director of conservation science, testified to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources on the importance of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
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Wolfe offers ag fixes to ‘complex, severe’ climate change

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David Wolfe, professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, told a congressional committee in a hearing on agricultural resiliency that climate change impacts have been more complex and severe than scientists had forecast three decades ago.
David Wolfe testifying before a Congressional Subcomittee

Awards fund innovations in digital agriculture

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Projects ranging from a soil-swimming robot that can sense conditions in the root zone in real time to computational models that can predict produce spoilage received seed funds from the Cornell Initiative for Digital Agriculture’s new Research Innovation Fund.
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Lab of Ornithology debuts its first feature film

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“Bird of Prey,” the first feature documentary produced by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, was released to the public June 13. It tells the story of the great Philippine eagle, the largest and rarest bird of prey in the world.
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