Reading time: about 6 minutesCornell’s rapidly growing digital agriculture efforts, which focus on incorporating technology in agricultural management, could expand further with funding from a potential portion of the University’s $30 million federal settlement. The settlement’s explicit reference to digital agriculture piqued the interest of researchers, including Prof. Julio Giordano, animal science, who researches technological applications in dairy farming and serves as associate director of the Cornell Institute of Digital Agriculture. “My interpretation of the settlement is that the funding is supposed to be for digital agriculture at Cornell,” Giordano said. The Sun spoke to some digital agriculture researchers to better understand what Cornell’s settlement funds may potentially affect. “Exposure to digital agriculture at Cornell … [showed] me how innovation can drive real, tangible change,” Téllez wrote.

Source: Daily Sun January 15, 2026 02:39 UTC