The pests - spotted wing fruit flies and brown marmorated stink bugs - could hit Finger Lakes vineyards this summer, said experts at the Finger Lakes Grape Growers' Conference in Geneva, N.Y.
Restaurateur Dan Barber, who writes on food and agricultural policy and promotes sustainable practices to achieve the best taste in farm and garden-grown foods, will speak in Call Auditorium. (March 17, 2011)
Cornell's Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm in Freeville, N.Y., has 110 acres, including 77 research plots where faculty and students study agricultural issues. (March 16, 2011)
A member of the faculty for 53 years, Henry N. Ricciuti, 93, professor emeritus of human development and an expert on early childhood development, died March 14 at his home in Ithaca. (March 15, 2011)
Cornell will receive $40 million from the U.K.'s Department for International Development and the Gates Foundation to fight a wheat pathogen that threatens the world's food security. (Feb. 27, 2011)
Employing powerful genome sequencing tools, Cornell scientists have gained new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste. (Feb. 24, 2011)
The impacts of climate change on corn yields in the United States and China in coming decades may not be all bad, according to a new Cornell and University of Tokyo study. (Feb. 23, 2011)
Cornell has released two new potato varieties that are ideal for potato chips. They are Waneta and Lamoka - named after a pair of twin lakes in the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. (Feb. 21, 2011)
W. Keith Kennedy, provost emeritus, professor emeritus at Cornell and former dean of Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, died Feb. 18 at age 92. (Feb. 21, 2011)
