In the field: Empowering farmers through agroforestry, carbon markets

Field Note

Meet Seongmin Shin , a Ph.D. candidate in Development Studies at Cornell University with a deep commitment to environmental sustainability at the nexus of climate change, the carbon market, and agroforestry. Recently recognized with the IUFRO...
  • Global Development Section
  • Global Development
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Straw, sorghum & oil seed cakes: Building a bovine feed library for India

News

India produces a whopping 25% of all global milk production. The country also has the largest population of bovines in the world— 303.76 million, including cattle, buffalo, mithun and yaks. That is especially significant when global warming is...
  • Cornell Atkinson
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Climate Change
  • Environment
  • Dairy
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Mike Gore recognized for impact in public sector plant breeding

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Mike Gore, professor of molecular breeding and genetics at Cornell University, has been honored with the Public Sector Impact Award from the National Association for Plant Breeding (NAPB). This award recognizes public sector scientists who have...
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Genetics
  • Plants
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Corn-shaped seed pellets to boost habitat for monarchs, bees

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Cornell innovation allows growers to use corn seed planting machines to plant strips of milkweed or wildflowers next to their fields.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Department of Entomology
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Entomology
  • Pollinators
  • Biodiversity
  • Crops
  • Horticulture
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm
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Real-life learning: engineering students learn by doing at Cornell AES farm

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Brooke Paykin ‘24 chose to major in Biological and Environmental Engineering (BEE) because she cares about protecting the natural environment and she enjoys seeing projects from planning through construction. Her love of hands-on engineering...
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
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Striving for sustainable crop production: SuMAS intern Francisco Lopez

Field Note

First generation Puerto Rican Francisco J. López Núñez attends the University of Puerto Rico Mayagüez. He was selected for the Sustainable Management of Agricultural Systems (SuMAS) internship program, which connected him with the Cornell...
  • Field Crops
  • Soil
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Little Salmon River Dam Removal Meeting in Mexico, NY

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Written by Emily Fell (Eastern Great Lakes Watershed Coordinator, NYSWRI and NYSDEC) Partners from NYS Water Resources Institute (NYSWRI), Tug Hill Commission and NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC), and NY Sea Grant in...
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Jensen Njagi ’25: Inspired by a cause to turn waste into value

Field Note

As a Laidlaw scholar , Jensen Njagi ’25 spent the summer doing community-based translational research in his home country of Kenya. As a Global Development major, Jensen is driven by a purpose to improve community health while considering the...
  • Global Development Section
  • Agriculture
  • Environment
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Harnessing AI for ag research: CALS seed grants support Roadmap to 2050

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CALS’ Research and Innovation Office is offering $10,000-$50,000 awards to support proposal development, patent or technology development, commercialization or community uses of AI.
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Agriculture Sciences Major
  • Animal Science
  • Biological and Environmental Engineering
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Department of Communication
  • Computational Biology
  • Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
  • Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
  • Department of Entomology
  • Food Science
  • Global Development Section
  • Microbiology
  • Molecular Biology and Genetics
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Neurobiology and Behavior
  • Nutritional Sciences
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Biology Section
  • Plant Breeding and Genetics Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
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Sushmi Majumder '25: Artistic reflections on our connections to food

Field Note

Cornell’s Food Systems and Global Change program launched a storytelling project called “Food is…,” which aims to meld digital illustration with personal narratives on the multifaceted nature of what food means to each of us. Hear from Sushmi...
  • Department of Communication
  • Global Development Section
  • Communication
  • Food
  • Global Development
  • Health + Nutrition
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Meet the grain-swimming robot set to revolutionize crop management

Field Note

Lorenzo Conti admits he wasn’t thinking about starting a business when he first discovered the “Crover effect.” Conti was completing his PhD in granular materials at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland when he discovered that the...
  • Center of Excellence in Food and Agriculture
  • Cornell AgriTech
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