The consequences of climate change look bleak for the Southwest and much of America's breadbasket, the Great Plains. A "megadrought" will likely occur late in this century journal Science Advances.
Engaged Cornell Cooperative Extension Student Projects grants will support a student project that will collect the stories of New York state farmers with Cornell Cooperative Extension.
In research that could have implications in the business world, experts found that firefighter platoons who eat meals together have better group job performance compared to firefighters who dine solo.
Ten students from across Cornell spent two weeks of their winter break on a journey through Vietnam, listening to farmers and community members and seeing the effects of climate change firsthand.
Planting cover crops under grapevines provides vineyard managers with a sustainable alternative to herbicide treatments in cool and humid climates while tamping down unnecessary herbicide use costs.
Think tofu but with a creepy-crawly, sustainable twist: A Cornell food science team will compete Feb. 14 at the Thought for Food Global Summit in Lisbon, Portugal, with C-fu – a new protein product made entirely of crushed mealworms.
Researchers at the Cornell-affiliated Boyce Thompson Institute developed a test tube tissue culture procedure that multiplies the number of woodland agrimony plants to propagate the plant.
Russian farmers are visiting northern New York state to meet with a Cornell expert to learn how to tackle devastating alfalfa snout beetles native to their homeland.
Farm-to-Pint tours brought together more than 70 New York hop and barley producers, maltsters, brewers, state officials with Cornell and other industry researchers.
Ralph D. Christy, professor of emerging markets in the Department of Applied Economics Management, has been named the new director of the Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development. (March 30, 2009)