Introducing Aravelle – a new white wine grape that was 42 years in the making. Cornell grape breeder Bruce Reisch made the hybrid by crossing Cayuga white and riesling grapes in 1981, at the start of ...

The news of Bruce Reisch’s retirement has been circulating for months, in several cases embedded in stories trumpeting the final step of a grape he spent 42 years developing as a breeder at Cornell.

A drought hit the Finger Lakes region several years ago, right as Scott Osborn was testing a new product on the crops in his vineyards. He sprayed the product, which contained a type of fungus meant ...

A grape variety nearly two decades in the making by a Cornell agriculture team produces fruit twice the size of Concords, those jelly- and jam-making stalwarts. After the team envisioned a new breed ...

The claim that the weather is only nice in Ithaca when parents or prospective students come to visit found support once again this weekend. Nice weather accompanied this year's Cornell Days, an ...

U.S. agriculture officials are joining Cornell University scientists to stop the spread of pale and black swallow-wort vines. The twining vines -- members of the milkweed family recently classified as ...

The next time you visit one of the many vineyards around the Finger Lakes region, take a closer look at the grape vines. While leaves may appear perfectly lush, healthy and green, there may be disease ...

Removing not only a diseased grapevine but the two vines on either side of it can reduce the incidence of leafroll disease, a long-standing bane of vineyards around the world, Cornell researchers have ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Removing not only a diseased grapevine but the two vines on either side of it can reduce the incidence of leafroll disease, a long-standing bane of vineyards around the world, Cornell ...