Cornell's SRI-Rice Center is helping West African countries scale-up their environmentally friendly, highly productive rice cropping methods. (Aug. 13, 2012)
Edward Buckler, United States Department of Agriculture and Cornell plant geneticist, has received the inaugural 2017 National Academy of Sciences Prize in Food and Agriculture Sciences.
Hannah Cai '19 is on a mission to encourage you to get to know your food. The nutritional sciences major launched Food For Thought, a blog on cooking, sustainability and human well-being.
Bactana Animal Health, a new company providing a natural, sustainable alternative to dosing livestock prophylactically with antibiotics and hormones, joined Cornell’s McGovern Center in May.
New York state students interested in dairy farming careers will get a boost thanks to a new scholarship program from Chobani and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Forecasted heavy snow and fierce winds last week prompted Cornell leadership to close the university March 2. Students brushed up for prelims, as Ithaca escaped the worst of the storm.
Tomatoes are an ideal model species for plant research, but researchers at the Cornell-affiliated Boyce Thompson Institute made them more useful by cutting the time to modify tomato genes by a third.
Cornell and U.S Department of Agriculture researchers announced that they are releasing a nutritious new red rice cultivar that should appeal to people interested in alternative grains.