The Cornell Lake Erie Research and Extension Laboratory (CLEREL) vineyard in Portland, New York, is pioneering the future of sustainable farming and agriculture. As Cornell University’s first living laboratory for precision agriculture, autonomy, and sustainability, this innovative vineyard supports the grape industry across New York and Pennsylvania. “There is a lot of environmental variation on a farm,” said Terry Bates, director of CLEREL. “But it used to be you’d set machines at a particular

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