New York State produces a wide variety of speciality crops including fruits, vegetables, wine, maple syrup, honey, horticulture, landscape and nursery crops. These high value crops contribute one-third of the state's total agricultural production.

Nationally, New York ranks:

- 2nd in the production of apples, cabbage & maple syrup
- 3rd in grapes & cauliflower 
- 4th in tart cherries, pears, snap beans & sweet corn

Working with the Department of Horticulture and the Experiment Stations at Cornell and Geneva, Cornell Cooperative Extension professionals provide expertise and resources to assist growers with the challenges that they face in production, plant health, pest control and economic viability.

Program Highlight

The 2010 Cornell Berry Web Seminars provided interdisciplinary education in pest management to berry growers in  New York State and the northeast. It also gave CCE educators in the Capital District an opportunity to learn that webcast technology appears to have great utility when providing this type of information to growers, industry and extension professionals.