Reiners, Stephen
Associate Professor
Research and extension efforts are designed to maintain and enhance the profitability and sustainability of New York vegetable farmers both for the short and long term. My short term projects are designed to provide growers with the best cultural methods to grow crops, i.e., fertility management; irrigation; optimizing plant populations; and variety selection. Long term projects include fine tuning cover crop use to maximize nutrient recycling; improving fertilizer recommendations; determining how variety selection and fertility practices affect crop nutrition; and food safety issues as it relates to production practices (manure, compost, irrigation).
research
primary investigator of
- SERVICE ORDER # 8 (DIRECT SUPERVISOR: JIM BALLERSTEIN) | Research Grant
- SERVICE ORDER NO. 6: DIRECT SUPERVISOR JIM BALLERSTEIN | Research Grant
co investigator of
research areas
- adult and extension education | collaborative research area (CALS)
- horticultural sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- integrated crop management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- nutrient management | collaborative research area (CALS)
- plant sciences | collaborative research area (CALS)
- sustainable agriculture | collaborative research area (CALS)
- vegetables | collaborative research area (CALS)
domestic geographic focus
- New York State | state
submitted impact statement
- Responding to catastrophic flooding in New York state | 2006 Impact statement
- Leveling the playing field for New York state pea growers | 2005 Impact statement
affiliations
faculty appointment in
- Horticultural Sciences at Geneva (HORT SCI) | Geneva department
member of graduate field
- Horticulture | graduate field
other Cornell affiliations
- Cornell Organic Working Group | working group
teaching
teaches
- HORT 4500 - Principles of Vegetable Production (MWF 11:15:AM-12:05:PM) | fall 2008 class
service
current professional activities
- American Society of Horticultural Sciences
- NE American Society of Horticultural Science
- American Society of Agronomy
- Peer reviewer for Journal, HortScience, HortTechnology
- Member vegetable working group
- Epsilon Sigma Phi
- NE-124 Cooperative Regional Project, Genetic Manipulation of Sweet Corn Quality and Stress Resistance
- Sigma Xi
background
educational background
- PhD, Horticulture, Ohio State University, 1987
- MS, Horticulture, Rutgers University, 1983
- BS, Plant science, Rutgers University, 1980
professional background
- Associate Professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences, NYS Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY, 2000 -present
- Assistant Professor, Department of Horticultural Sciences, NYS Agricultural Experiment Station, Geneva, NY, 1994 - 2000
- Associate Professor, Department of Extension Specialists/Department of Plant Science, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1994
- Assistant Professor, Department of Extension Specialists/Department of Plant Science, Cook College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1988 - 1994
featured in
- Cornell receives nearly $850,000 to improve specialty crops | Cornell Chronicle feature
Keywords: compost, fertility, i.e., irrigation)., nutrition, processing vegetables, soil fertility, stand establishment, sweet corn, vegetable culture, vegetables, vine crops