Four generations of DeFishers have nurtured apples, pears and cherries on their 450-acre family orchard on the Lake Ontario shore in western New York. For 75 years, apples have been their mainstay.
The Gates Foundation has given Cornell a $3 million grant to use genomics to develop more crop varieties for smallholder farmers in developing countries. (June 1, 2011)
The State of Upstate New York Conference: Resiliency, Partnerships and Innovation will be held in Syracuse, N.Y., June 8-9 for a broad audience of policymakers, academics and elected officials. (May 23, 2011)
The new ClimAID report from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority predicts specific impacts of climate change on the state by 2080. Cornell researchers contributed to the report.
Cornell deepened its century-long commitment to western New York's wine, grape and juice industries when it opened its new $5.4 million Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory, Aug. 25.
Double Gold and Crimson Night are new raspberries that are well suited for small-scale growers and home gardeners who want showy, flavorful raspberries on vigorous, disease resistant plants. (April 30, 2012)
The study provides a revised classification of 97 metallic sweat bee species found in eastern North America, including 11 identified for the first time.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will be the first federal organization to use VIVO, a Web application conceived and developed at Cornell, to help scientists network and find potential collaborators. (Oct. 28, 2010)
The New York State Agricultural Experiment Station hosted 11 undergraduates from around the country in a new plant sciences program this summer. (Aug. 18, 2009)