Cornell researchers are testing vegetable crop leaves to see if they're nutrient deficient, and if they are, they are nourishing the crops via 'fertigation' – delivering nutrients via irrigation.
Experts gathered at Cornell Sept. 17 for a daylong symposium on “Food Security in a Vulnerable World,” at which suggestions were offered to G20 leaders in absentia.
Lauren Hodge of York, Pa., spent a week in Cornell's Soil and Water Lab, subjecting pulverized pumpkin to a barrage of tests to determine how the gourd reacts to water contaminated with hard metals. (Nov. 15, 2011)
In 2013-14, the new major, environmental science and sustainability, will launch in the Department of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
The Wayne County Growers and Processors has disbanded and has decided to donate its remaining funds - $150,000 - to Cornell to support education and research on agricultural labor. (Feb. 2, 2010)
Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future gives $1.4 million from their Academic Venture Fund to 12 new scientific projects. The awards were culled from a record-setting 49 proposals.
Cornell's agricultural experiment stations and cooperative extension will allocate annual federal grants to land-grant universities of $9 million to study food systems, environmental problems. (Oct. 29, 2012)
Cornell scientists and alumni are part of a participatory plant breeding movement that seeks to produce organically gown seeds for crops appropriate to local climate conditions.