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Editor’s Letter Summer 2025
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Dear farmers and friends, As we reflect on seasons past and plan ahead, how are we prepared to weather change? If we’ve learned anything from recent history, our predictions can be wrong. Farmers weather change on a daily basis — anyone involved in farming, gardening, and agriculture knows that there’s nothing certain and nothing predictable.…
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New York Hybrid Grapes: Cheers and Challenges
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During my Ph.D. at the Cornell Craft Beverage Institute, part of Cornell’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, I delved into the opportunities and challenges of hybrid grapes with Finger Lakes winemakers. Now a postdoctoral associate at the University of Burgundy Europe in Dijon, France, I’m leveraging my insights to advance global research on hybrid…
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Growth Across Fields: Scientific Collaboration Tackles Farming Challenges
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New study shows how agriculture’s toughest challenges require coordinated breakthroughs in biology, chemistry, engineering and data science. From soft robots crawling through crops to bio-based fertilizers that protect waterways, the future of farming lies at the intersection of scientific disciplines, according to a new study describing how agriculture’s toughest challenges require coordinated breakthroughs in biology,…
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Branching Out: Veterans Grow Their Fruit Tree Knowledge
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Veterans across New York State are gaining hands-on skills in fruit tree production through a unique learning cohort developed by the Cornell Small Farms Program’s Farm Ops project. Over the past two growing seasons, the program has helped dozens of veterans grow their confidence, technical abilities, and farming networks. Farm Ops project lead Nina Saeli…
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How Not to Graze
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In the third installment of our new series, Where’s the Grass?, we share that there are many poor management practices seen in the grazing world. Here’s how to ensure you do the right things for good results! This is the third installment in our series “Where’s the Grass?” in which we try to elaborate on…
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With Sustainable Practices, New York Dairy Farms Lower Emissions
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New study is first to capture “whole farm” emissions from New York farms, which includes feed production, animal feeding, manure management and energy use. A number of New York dairy farms achieve low greenhouse gas emissions due to sustainable management practices like growing a high proportion of their own feed and making the most of…
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Tom and Sea: Bringing a New Generation into Farming
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Farming can bring people together in many ways, from meeting neighbors at a market to sharing a meal at a table. The connections between people, and the land they share, is special. One such connection is the story of Tom and Sea, and the founding of the West Branch Commons, which we have featured in…
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Upcycled Grape Pomace in Chicken Feed may Improve Gut Health
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Cornell researchers investigate utilizing grape waste for poultry feed. New York state’s grape industry produces 30,000 tons of grape pomace waste each year. Nationally, that number is roughly 1 million tons. The grape skins, seeds and stalks left over from the wine and grape juice industries may provide new opportunities to improve the health of…
Summer 2025
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