Everything we do is centered around animal welfare and food safety. However, we needed the science. It's all that partnership and education. I've learned so much through the years working with extension. It's been a great thing.

Frank Connett

Manager of Flock Services at Kreider Farms

Management of forest invasives has been a very large problem for me, and I've managed to keep on top of it, but I found the resources offered by extension have been very valuable in that. It is very helpful because if you talk to the professionals who do it, you get a very different view point and in many cases you could be wasting thousands of dollars in doing the wrong thing, or the right thing at the wrong time. I found that having the resources from extension has aided me in many ways.

John Hoover

Bald Eagle Tree Farm

The extension programs have given me reference making me a much better steward of our property and a better understanding of how the ecosystem fits together. Since I've been managing it, we've seen a return of fishers and beavers to our stream so we are getting back pieces to the ecosystem that have been missing.

Susan Shoemaker-Benedict

Beartown Family Limited Partnership

Penn State has been an integral part of the business since I’ve been here. We do about 3.5 million pounds of fresh sausage a year. We’ve relied on Penn State many times because we do not have the budget to have a full-time person here that deals with food safety or research and development.

Len Caric

President/CEO Uncle Charley’s Sausage Co.

We work very closely with Penn State Extension, and that has been instrumental in developing best practices and new processes and technologies, both in the orchard and the packhouse.

Danijel Lolic

Rice Fruit Company

I really appreciate the instructors from Penn State Extension mostly because they serve as a really good resource. They're well-spoken and very clear. They'll take subject matter and dumb it down–so to speak–so that on every level, you understand it.

Ester Betley

Dining with Diabetes Participant

Penn State Extension and the University have provided us uncounted resources when it comes to the education of our employees.

Byron Shaffer

Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance at Kreider Farms