The Cornell University Ruminant Center (CURC), updated in 2013 to replace the former Teaching and Research Center, is a commercial scale dairy farm located 15 miles east of Cornell’s main campus. Home to 570 milking cows and housing for 400 heifers and calves, CURC includes modern free-stall barns, a tie-stall barn for individual cow research, a centralized feed center, substantial silage storage area, long-term manure storage and over 2,600 acres of cropland, pasture and woodlands.