• identifying critical needs through working with stakeholders;
• building on the strengths of Cornell--its faculty and staff;
• teamwork and collaboration including on and off-campus colleagues and stakeholders;
• a focus on multidisciplinary work; and
• integration of research and outreach.

Link to e-Commons for all of CWMI's material 

Recently translated to Spanish:  Reutilización Natural: Compostaje de Aves de Producción Muertas (Natural Rendering: Composting Poultry Mortality) Spanish (available as both a pdf and pptx) and English (pdf and ppt)

New Video and Poster available:  Organic Circularity: From Crop Waste to Compost. On eCommons or on YouTube.  The poster and the video both describe how crop waste can be used to create compost to grow more crops, hence improving soil and contributing to a circular economy.

USCC Compost 2026 Conference. February 2-5, 2026, Sacramento, CA. 

TerraCon 2026: The 3rd Annual Terramation Conference will take place February 3–4, 2026, in Tacoma, Washington. Register here. 

2026 NYS Organics Summit will be held April 14-16 in Syracuse, NY at the Marriott Syracuse Downtown. More information can be found here.

Call for Papers. The International Symposium on Animal Mortality Management.  Please submit abstracts by January 20, 2026. The conference will take place   June 29 - July 2, 2026 in Stevens Point, WI. Sponsor opportunites can be found here.