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Creating Corn to Survive the Cold Spells
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Though it is so prominent nation- and worldwide, corn is actually a tropical crop. As demand for food grows with a growing population, new efforts are in the works to increase the cold tolerance of this staple crop. Former research found that the enzyme Rubisco, critical for turning carbon dioxide into sugar, decreases when plants…
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March into Better Management through Labor Ready Trainings
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Management skills are not something people are born with, but are learned with time and practice. With labor as one of the largest on-farm costs, it is wise to invest in people and improve your management skills. Are you managing your labor well? Our Labor Ready project works to ensure that new farmers and advancing…
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New software helps plant breeders bring out their best
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Broccoli is in the eye of the beholder. A head of broccoli that might appeal to one person – perhaps because of its deep green color – may leave another cold, due to an asymmetrical shape or too-large buds. Cornell researchers participating in the Eastern Broccoli Project, which aims to produce broccoli varieties suited to grow…
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Raised Bed Gardening… With a Little Help from my Friends
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By Megan Rosko, Age 18, Outsiders 4-H Club I have been completing garden projects for about ten years and will be taking my gardening skills to a higher level this year . . . with raised beds. Eventually, our whole family garden will be raised beds to make it easier for my mom to continue…
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All Dressed Up and No Place to Snow: Filling Soil Health Prescriptions with Targeted Cover Crops
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Can you name fifteen uses for cover crops? Thomas Bjorkman, an associate professor of horticulture at Cornell University, can. And he’s using this list of “management goals”—including weed reduction, erosion prevention, soil aggregate stability, increased organic matter, and disease and pest suppression—to diagnose which cover crops will most benefit farmers’ productivity levels. Thomas’s online decision…
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