Local produce, jams and cheeses adorned tables in Mann lobby on Nov. 18 for the second annual Food and Fiber Fair.  The event attracted local farmers and activists.

A study found that tile drainage systems in upper Mississippi farmlands are the biggest contributors of nitrogen runoff into the Gulf of Mexico.

Months prior, upon scrambling to design a “restful-but-productive-and-recharging” summer, I decided I wanted to work on a farm.  Many phone calls and emails later (typically exchanged during the procrastinating periods before prelim season), I arranged to spend my July in Warner, New Hampshire as a farmhand on a small organic family farm. With only a few paragraphs and pictures on their website, I knew not what to expect. And so, on a morning in late June, I boarded a train to Boston, where after a quick meal I transferred onto a bus headed to Concord, New Hampshire. 

The spring, 2010 edition of Ag Day featured a girl in corn ear costume, a pulled pork barbeque and tons of cow-estions.  The bi-annual event featured student groups and farming programs, educating the general public about modern agriculture.

Dr. Molly Jahn Ph.D '88 is a Cornell Alumnus and the current United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary of Research, Education and Economics.  She answers seven science questions about the future of agriculture, the current Farm Bill and the USDA's top priorites.

"Crop mobbers" got dirt under their nails and apple trees in the ground on Sunday, Apr. 11. At Ithaca's first Crop Mob, an event designed to give people the chance to work on a farm for a day, about 30 local volunteers gathered at The Good Life Farm in Interlaken, NY.

The symbiotic relationship between livestock and the microbes in their stomachs generates methane gas, a potent greenhouse gas.  Dairy farms modify the diets and digestion of livestock in order to reduce emissions of greenhouse gas.

As the fall comes to an end in Ithaca, so too does another successful season at Dilmun Hill Student Farm. Dilmun Hill is Cornell’s student-run organic farm located on Route 366, just west of Cornell Orchards.