Our world-class research farms and greenhouses are the bridge between academic discovery and commercial application, contributing to a thriving economy.
CUAES Farms and Farm Services Brochure (pdf, adapted for web)
CUAES Greenhouses and Growth Chambers Brochure (pdf, adapted for web)
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Ithaca, NY
Dilmun Hill, a 12-acre student-run farm, provides a working farm for students to learn hands-on organic practices and farm management. Dilmun distributes organic produce to Cornell Dining, Manndible Cafe and sells directly to the public. |
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Ithaca, NY
Cornell’s 164-compartment greenhouse complex – the largest non-commercial greenhouse facility in the state – is a multi-purpose operation combining teaching and research facilities and public observatories, with more than 500 species of plants. |
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Ithaca, NY
Farm Services provides both research and production farming, in and around the campus, and in addition provides farm services and equipment to faculty, departments and researchers. |
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Ithaca, NY Campus Area Farms comprises 11 farms and 325 acres in and around the Cornell Campus. The farms provide research plots for faculty that are easily accessible. |
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Freeville, N.Y.
The Homer C. Thompson Vegetable Research Farm, 10 miles from the Cornell campus, is the site of vegetable research. The 200-acre farm includes a 30-acre parcel for the Freeville Organic Farm. |
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Aurora, NY
The Musgrave Research Farm, 27 miles north of Cornell's Ithaca campus, provides productive arable land for applied agricultural research, teaching and extension. |
Long Island, NY
The 68 acre facility features state-of-the-art greenhouses, a nursery and container production area, and a plant tissue culture facility. LIHREC specializes in floriculture, viticulture (grape production), and the research of vegetables, potatoes, and woody ornamentals.
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Willsboro, NY
This 352-acre farm is located along Lake Champlain. Both clay and sandy soils are present on the farm, permitting a range of field experiments for optimizing management of agricultural resources. |
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Ithaca, NY
SARL is a special quarantine facility providing research capacity for arthropods for experimentation on their biology and control. The facility houses exotic pest species as well as non-indigenous arthropods that might serve as biological control agents of pests. |
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Ithaca, NY CURBI will implement commercially available technologies along with Cornell-led technologies and utilize campus biomass resources, such as farms and forests' organic waste and Cornell food waste. |
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The consolidation of farms and plant growth facilities under the CUAES umbrella was initiated by this report in 2005: Task force report on improving CALS farms, field stations, and plant growth facilities For more information on the consolidation of operations contact ait4@cornell.edu |









