Food & Agriculture

Cornell ice cream returns to Dairy Bar

Cornell Dairy ice cream returns for retail sale this week following a $105 million renovation to Stocking Hall, home of the Department of Food Science.

Watkins named Cornell Cooperative Extension director

Christopher Watkins, Cornell's Herman M. Cohn Professor of Postharvest Science, has been named director of Cornell Cooperative Extension.

DELLAs bolster symbiosis in Green Revolution crops

Boyce Thompson Institute and Cornell researchers have identified a plant protein called DELLA that may lead to reducing phosphorus-fertilizer applications on farms and better plant growth in poor soil.

Extension’s school garden project grows success

Cornell Cooperative Extension's Healthy Gardens, Healthy Youth project is growing results in gardens across New York state.

Great Dane: Colleagues fete Per Pinstrup-Andersen

Colleagues held a celebration and symposium to mark Per Pinstrup-Andersen’s retirement Dec. 13-14 following 40 years of combating world poverty and malnutrition.

Aeroponics to boost NY potato production

Cornell researchers have contained the spread of destructive golden nematode that would have cost billions in crop losses.

Agribusiness panel to Congress: Get us workers

A disturbingly different American landscape is on the horizon if immigration reform in Congress can’t provide enough legal workers, agribusiness panelists predicted Dec. 10 at Cornell.

Cookie Dough Remodel wins ice cream contest

Cookie Dough Remodel was the winning flavor in this year's ice cream flavor contest. The theme was the remodeled Stocking Hall.

Transitions at NYSAES pave the way for the future

Four Geneva-based faculty in the Department of Food Science will move to the Ithaca campus over the next two to three years.