The College of Agriculture and Life Sciences announced Wednesday that it is entering the planning stages of a potential consolidation of the five departments related to the University’s Plant Sciences major.

The CALS Green program encourages members of the Cornell community to conserve energy and reduce their carbon footprints. 

The meeting between CALS leadership and students, faculty and administrators is a step in the right direction to foster better dialogue on major decisions that should be continued moving forward.

Liberty Hyde Bailey is consider today, "the Father of Modern Horticulture." He established the College of Agriculture and Life Science, as served as its first dean.  His vast collections of plants, books, and photographs formed the basis of the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium, and his work propelled the 4-H movement of the twentieth century.

Faculty in the Architecture and Horticulture departments joined forces to inform their students about sustainability and to involve them in The Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES), a program aimed at creating sustainable landscapes in any surrounding. 

New columnist Emily Greenberg invokes performance art and T. S. Elliot to show the unseen beauty of the heroes of the CALS Quad.

"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 Arnot Teaching and Research Forest provides a unique blend of acadmic endeavors, recreational activities and natural beauty, and at its core, this natural forest draws an sweet resource that sure to make even the driest pan-cakes taste better.  With science research and tourist attractions, the Arnot Forest is surely a sweet secret.

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.

From Food, Inc. to Michael Pollan’s novels, in recent years, the public at large has criticized agriculture.  Often, the public portrays farmers as villains. Busy farmers frequently remain unheard in the media. Recently, ABC ran a special with the headline, “Got Milk? Got Ethics? Animal Rights v. U.S. Dairy Industry.”