Posts by Krisy Gashler
Krisy Gashler is a freelance writer for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
Sunlight is a precious resource in Central New York and a new collaboration between farmers and Cornell is looking at ways to harness it using technology that truly puts the soft in software: sheep. As industrial-sized solar installations pop up throughout New York state, residents fear the loss of agricultural land. Lexie Hain ’99 has…
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Climatic changes are disrupting the entire farm cycle, from forcing delays in planting to reducing yields when the crops do grow. In the autumn of 2018, unusually heavy rainfall — almost 8 inches above the norm — interfered with harvests. The year before, a late spring frost killed off most of the strawberry crop. And…
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