Substantial reduction in Northeast dairy farm greenhouse gas emissions

Report

The Northeast dairy industry has made significant progress in a range of sustainability measures between 1971 and 2024, especially greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to “ Fifty years of environmental progress by U.S. dairy” published June...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
drone footage of Cornell's farm

COMM Updates - 8/29/2024

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Welcome back to the new semester and COMM Updates! Honors Continuing in the tradition of appointing our faculty members in high-level leadership positions, the university announced Professor Natalie Bazarova was appointed Associate Vice Provost...
individuals with their faces on the bodies of farm animals

Student inspired by teaching experience at local prison

Field Note

What did you find rewarding about being a TA for the class? This experience was full of firsts. Most of the students had never heard of plant diseases. Bill and I introduced them to a whole world of biological phenomena and vocabulary. I’ve been...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
Libby Indemaur and CPEP plant science students

PRO-DAIRY Agriservice Awards

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These awards are given in appreciation and recognition of outstanding contributions to NYS agriculture through support of PRO-DAIRY. “This year’s recipients, a farm and an agriservice professional, join a distinguished list of award winners who...
  • Cornell Cooperative Extension
  • Cornell Dairy
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
6 people standing with an award

How Hudson River homeowners view flood insurance

Report

Global Development Impact Brief #3 The Global Development Impact Brief series is designed to highlight Global Development’s work across disciplines, issues, and geographies in order to give readers insights into how we are advancing development...
  • Global Development Section
  • Environment
  • Water
  • Global Development
Hudson River in New York City

Biohybrid robots controlled by electrical impulses — in mushrooms

News

Cornell researchers discovered a new way of controlling biohybrid robots that can react to their environment better than their purely synthetic counterparts: harnessing fungal mycelia’s innate electrical signals.

  • Agriculture
  • Soil
  • Crops
  • Field Crops
  • Digital Agriculture
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
A biohybrid robot

Campus grasslands grow environmental solutions

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Projects across Cornell are exploring how the university's grasslands – from hayfields to campus lawns – can protect birds, encourage biodiversity and sequester carbon to fight climate change.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Cornell Botanic Gardens
  • Cornell University Agricultural Experiment Station
  • Lab of Ornithology
  • Ruminant Center
  • Animals
  • Biodiversity
  • Environment
  • Landscape
  • Land
A tall-grass area of Libe Slope

Seminar series gift honors Tsujimoto brothers

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The newly named seminar series — the Harry ’51 and Joshua ’49 Tsujimoto Perspectives in Global Development Seminar Series — will enable all invited speakers to visit campus to speak on the world’s most urgent challenges. During their time on...
  • Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management
  • Global Development Section
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • Environment
  • Food
  • Global Development
Harry, Josh and Jimmy Tsujimoto at their family's farm

Cornell Grape Pathologist Releases Urgent Update on EPA Mancozeb Proposal

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The EPA has proposed to cancel the use of mancozeb in grapevine due to post-application worker exposure hazards ( Docket EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0291 and supporting document EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0291-0094). The public comment period on this proposal is open...
  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Viticulture and Enology
  • Pathology
3 pictures. from left to right, downy mildew on several grape leaves, downy mildew on a cluster of grapes, hand holding a single grape leaf with downy mildew

From space to farm: readying NASA satellites to help growers

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Cornell AgriTech researchers showcased digital agriculture projects during a “Space for Ag Tour” by NASA leaders to better understand the remote sensing needs of specialty crop growers.

  • Cornell AgriTech
  • Natural Resources and the Environment Section
  • School of Integrative Plant Science
  • Horticulture Section
  • Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology Section
  • Soil and Crop Sciences Section
  • Agriculture
  • Digital Agriculture
  • Entomology
  • Disease
  • Plants
  • Crops
  • Horticulture
  • Viticulture and Enology
Members of Yu Jiang’s team demonstrate the technology

Diana Reyes Gomez: Harnessing red seaweed to reduce cow methane emissions

Field Note

Diana Reyes Gomez is a postdoctoral associate in the lab of Joseph McFadden at Cornell University. Her work focuses on innovative strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and enhance the efficiency of dairy cattle. In particular, she...
  • PRO-DAIRY
  • Animal Science
  • Animals
  • Climate Change
  • Dairy
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Making strides in novel manure research with US Dairy’s Net Zero Initiative

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Cornell’s Nutrient Management Spear Program (NMSP) staff has been conducting research trials on farms in upstate New York as part of the Dairy Soil & Water Regeneration project (DSWR) . In Western New York, the team is working with Noblehurst...
  • Animal Science
  • Field Crops
  • Soil
  • Climate Change
People standing in a field walking in a line.