Fruit, Soil Health Teams tour orchards, campus

News

Cornell Cooperative Extension’s Fruit and Soil Health Program Work Teams held a joint meeting July 11 to tour research orchards and facilities for updates on the latest science from Ithaca-based faculty and staff. The day started with a morning...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Cornell Orchards
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
people in blueberry planting with apple trees and campus in background

Lena Wilson: Using sweet science to improve berries

Field Note

Lena Wilson is a Ph.D. student in professor Courtney Weber’s lab at Cornell AgriTech, where she focuses on raspberry breeding and genetics. Originally from San Francisco, her path to agricultural science began with a college job at a plant...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture
Lena Wilson, a Ph.D. student, examines berries in a research tunnel.

Meet Asmita Gautam: Helping dairies achieve sustainable silage farming

Field Note

Originally from Bulingtar, Nepal, Asmita Gautam recently joined the Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) as a postdoctoral research associate. Read on to learn more about Gautam’s origins and what she hopes to learn from this position. Why...
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Climate Change
A woman crouches in a field looking at a tablet housed in a case.

Margery Daughtrey: Keeping plants healthy for nearly 50 years

Spotlight

Since 1978, Margery Daughtrey has been and ornamental crop disease management problem-solver, serving the greenhouse, nursery and floriculture industries from her base at the Long Island Horticultural Research and Extension Center. “Some of her...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
Margery Daughtrey in lab with bouquet

Faces of Extension: Hans Walter-Peterson

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Hans Walter-Peterson, team leader and viticulture extension specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension’s (CCE) Finger Lakes Grape program, transformed a hobby interest in wine into a thriving career. Working in the Finger Lakes region of New...
  • Viticulture and Enology
Hans Walter Peterson inspecting grapes in a vineyard

Compaction crisis: The unseen battle farmers face everyday

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The effects of soil compaction on crop growth are often overlooked, especially compared to many other soil health indicators. In New York State, Kitty’ O Neil is determined to investigate its impacts on-farm. In recent years, scientists and...
  • Agriculture
  • Field Crops
  • Climate Change
  • Soil
A woman pushes a device into the ground in a farm field.

Dung beetles combat flies; insecticide overuse harms beetles

News

Anyone who has walked through a barn or cattle pasture in the summer knows that flies are a nuisance and even a health hazard. Face flies can spread diseases like pink eye to cattle, and horn flies – biting flies that live on cows and take up to...
  • Cornell Integrated Pest Management
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Dairy
Cattle on a pasture