2024 Student Films
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Item Pesticides: Pleasant or Peevish?Tsai, Samuel (2024-11)Spreads awareness about the use of pesticides focusing on the positives and negatives of banning neonicotinoids through a staged debate.Item The Future of Animal Welfare - The Dairy ChapterWang, Maggie; Rahaman, Alex; Martin, Aiden (2024-11)Does the quality of life aspect of sustainable agriculture include animal welfare? Should it? This film highlights animal wellfare philosophies and practices within a local family-owned dairy farm and the Cornell Dairy's teaching barn.Item From Service to Soil - Veterans in FarmingSachs, Harrison; Huang, Sunny; Flores, Connor; Mueller, Peter (2024-11)The Cornell Small Farms Program's Veterans in Agriculture project, known as Farm Ops, offers support to military service members and veterans interested in exploring or pursuing careers in agriculture. The film explores the program's impact on the lives of aspiring and established veteran farmers in New York State, with a particular focus on how Farm Ops contributes to social sustainability, as well as its role in promoting profitability and environmental stewardship in agriculture.Item Hydroponics: Is It the Future?Fleischmann, Lillian; Meeder, Daniel; Malaga, Sydney (2024-11)To what degree is hydroponics an agricultural practice that can sufficiently sustain the growing population? This video engages with preliminary research to get a gauge on the likelihood of hydroponics being a popular agriculture practice in the future, especially with the growth of AI.Item Tilling in the NameSims, Robert Wallace; Dayani, Ethan (2024-11)Tilling has a harmful effect on the soil, and can be a very unsustainable practice. In this parody of “Killing in the Name” by Rage Against the Machine, the harms done by tilling and alternatives are discussed.Item Are GMOs the Way to Go?Mulé, Keara; Cutri, Brayden; Kim, Avery; Russell, Lauren (2024-11)Aims to shed light on the sustainable aspects of Genetically Modified crops. The film is structured in terms of the three pillars of sustainability: Long-term profit; Stewardship of Air, Land, and Water; Community Well-being.Item Harvesting Health: Cultivating Wellness in AgricultureTsao, Sam; Edwardes, Hawkin; Lin, Ben; Browder, Victoria (2024-11)Mental health in agriculture isamong many other challenges for the farmers providing the foundations of our food systems. Addressing mental health and other challenges through community networks, and potentially even policy changes is essential to ensure healthy farming communities and a stable agricultural future. This film explores farmers' mental health challenges, highlighting the need for sustainable agriculture practices that support both land and farmer well-being.Item Waste to WattsMarshall, James Wyatt; Braun, Seth; Feinman, Charles; Verratti, Caleb (2024-11)One of the many ways that the dairy industry is striving to be more sustainable is by reducing the emission of methane from dairy manure. This is a big area of focus on larger farms. This film explores the science behind digesters and the reasons that they contribute to economic and environmental sustainability.Item Cultivating Connections:How language barriers affect agricultureShefter, Matthew; Zoller, Blaine; Brauchle, Cate; Melero, Angelica (2024-11)Immigrant farm workers contribute to a large percentage of farm labor. However a language barrier between workers and farm-owners prevents workers from communicating with the farm or learn the business skills needed to advance in the industry.Item Beef in the United StatesBaggett, Wil; Hendrix, Elliot (2024-11)The beef industry is one of the most demonized and scapegoated industries when it comes to climate change. Our goal is to show the sustainable aspects of the beef industry, specficially in cow-calf producers.