News and Events

The New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets (NYSDAM) is implementing new produce safety standards as required by the United States Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). NYSDAM has outlined three steps you can take if you need to comply with FSMA's Produce Safety Rule.

For three days in early August at Stocking Hall, a handful of judges saw, sniffed and sampled 234 cheeses in 24 categories – all of it made in New York.

Three collaborative New York City-based projects, designed to inspire cross-campus research partnerships, have been awarded grant funding totaling approximately $500,000 from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Murray’s Stockinghall cheese – a bright, lemony, cloth-bound cheddar named for Cornell’s Stocking Hall – won best in show at the 36th American Cheese Society competition.

Cornell is teaming with Purdue University to establish the first Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety, which aims to solve some of the world’s greatest challenges in agriculture and food insecurity.

Leep Foods, an upstate New York producer of specialty mushrooms, is working with the Center of Excellence at Cornell AgriTech to develop a blended burger using mushrooms and grass-fed beef.  

Cornell and China’s Hebei Qimei Agriculture Science and Technology Co. Ltd., have agreed to collaborate on microbial food safety research, via a $2.5 million grant from the Walmart Foundation.

The IFS@CU will host one of the many displays representing Cornell AgriTech and CALS at Empire Farm Days in Seneca Falls, NY August 6-8, 2019. Come see us in the Cornell Marketplace Building Lot #400.