Farmers in the Northeast are adapting to longer growing seasons, but they may face spring-planting whiplash as they confront fields increasingly saturated with rain, according to a research paper published in the journal Climatic Change. “Climate change can easily intensify agricultural susceptibility, but also presents fresh, surprising opportunities,” said David Wolfe, professor of plant and […]

After 15 years of research in New York state, scientists are finding a trifecta of benefits from the winter cover crop, triticale. A wheat-rye hybrid established in the late 1800s, researchers have found triticale can bring benefits to the field, the growers’ pockets, and dairy cows’ diets. “It’s like a ball of string,” explains Tom […]

IBM Research and Cornell University are collaborating on a genetic sequencing dairy project to help reduce the chances that the global milk supply is impacted by safety breaches. With the onset of this dairy project, Cornell University has become the newest academic institution to join the Consortium for Sequencing the Food Supply Chain, a food […]