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Offers guidance on purchasing and using firewood including how much is a cord of wood, what type of wood works best, as well as what to expect/request when the firewood is delivered.
Club members need to get their completed project books to their leaders as soon as possible.
Join the fun and exercise by square dancing. Any age, any ability welcome.
December for many cattle producers means much preparation for winterizing their herds. What is on your checklist for this month? Nutrition and winter feeding, body condition evaluation, and calving issues should all be on your list.
What was once considered a nuisance pest has now become a major threat to Pennsylvania fruit orchards grain and vegetable fields, and experts are scrambling to discover ways to get rid of them.
Any farm that houses animals in the state of Pennsylvania will have to have a written Manure Management Plan, meeting the guidelines provided in the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s Manure Management Manual.
Rain rot or rain scald, is caused by bacteria and often is mistaken for a fungal disease. The bacteria live in the outer layer of skin and cause pinpoint to large, crusty scabs to form.
What do you do with nearly 30 boys and girls outside on a hot summer day? Dance, play ball and read of course!
This month's Marcellus Educational Webinar program hosts Dana Aunkst and Eugene Pine from DEP discussing new regulations for natural gas drilling.
Bed bugs are making a comeback in apartment buildings, dorm rooms, hotels, hospitals and homes across the country due to people traveling more frequently, resistance to pesticides and lack of public awareness.
As a hunter, you may be surprised by the level of drilling activity associated with Marcellus shale on public lands in Pennsylvania. This article provides information, resources, and advice to help you make your hunting plans.
A new publication titled, "Negotiating Pipeline Rights-of-Way in Pennsylvania" is now available free of charge on the Penn State Extension website.
Voles may cause extensive damage to fruit trees and orchards as a result of girdling seedlings and trees and damaging roots.
The Direct Farm Sales Grant, which is funded by the federal Specialty Crops Block Grant program through the 2008 Farm Bill, provides up to $7,500 in matching grant funds to producers and markets selling directly to consumers.
This year is a good candidate for putting the orchards to bed with timely horticultural practices.
Having some sort of online presence with your business is becoming increasingly important as the new generation of consumers gains more purchasing power. One tool that is helping to connect buyers and sellers is PA MarketMaker.
Please join us for a demonstration of Comprehensive Automation for Specialty Crops harvest research with a vacuum transport system, bin filler, and bin shuttle developed by commercialization partner, DBR Conveyor Concepts. This will be an opportunity for growers to provide input on our multi-disciplinary team efforts to increase harvest efficiency!
The Penn State Agricultural Entrepreneurship Natural Working Group has launched a new web site titled A Guide to Farming in Pennsylvania, modeled after Cornell’s A Guide to Farming in New York State.
What was once considered a nuisance pest has now become a major threat to Pennsylvania fruit orchards grain and vegetable fields, and experts are scrambling to discover ways to get rid of them.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has designated 16 counties in Pennsylvania as natural disaster areas because of losses caused by drought that began May 25, 2010. Luzerne County is one of the 16 primary counties. So how is a Luzerne County sweet corn grower able to say he harvested some of the nicest sweet corn he has ever grown? He is referring to sweet corn that was planted in the drought and harvested in early September. No-tilling is what made it possible. This grower worked the fields for earlier sweet corn plantings. The spring plantings worked well. He started noticing poor and uneven stands in the worked fields that were planted in early June. Seeing that soil moisture conditions had become a limiting factor, he left the fields that were to be his later sweet corn plantings untilled. He applied a non-selective herbicide to those fields to help conserve moisture and eliminate established weeds. Irrigation was not available. The end result was a near perfect stand which produced a uniform crop of large, filled-out ears at a time when some competitors were trying to sell corn that was hurt by the drought.
