GREENWICH, N.Y. — This coming Tuesday is Election Day and Americans of all walks of life will be heading to the polls to cast their votes. With politics on many peoples’ minds, let’s look back at the People’s Party, also known as the Populist Party. This political party was founded by farmers in the late […]

WASHINGTON — The Chesapeake Bay Foundation cheered Senate passage today of a climate change and clean energy bill that includes more than $20 billion for climate-smart agricultural conservation practices vital to restoring the Chesapeake Bay and its waterways. Titled the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, the legislation passed by a vote of 51-50, with Vice […]

ITHACA, N.Y. — Electronic Grower Resources Online (e-GRO) Alert is celebrating completing its 10th year in 2021. e-GRO is a collaborative effort of greenhouse and floriculture specialists to create an educational clearing house for information about disease, insect, environmental, physiological and nutritional disorders being observed in commercial greenhouses, as well other relevant information. Current contributors […]

ITHACA, N.Y. — Pomace – the mashed, leftover pulp from red grapes in the early process of making wine – is considered byproduct rubbish. But maybe not for long. In a new Cornell-led food science study, researchers now demonstrate how viticultural trash could be a nutritive treasure. The group showed that two stilbenes – beneficial […]

PORTLAND, Maine — Creamy goat cheese with fresh herbs, a bloomy cow’s milk cheese, a perfectly aged sheep’s milk cheese.  If you’re a cheese aficionado, Maine is the place for you!  With 65 registered creameries across the state, Maine cheesemakers are producing some incredible artisanal products that sing the unique song of place and celebrate […]