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Learn strategies to manage extreme weather impacts on tree fruit production through research-based insights, with Pennsylvania pesticide applicator credits available.

An updated Tree Fruit Production Guide (2026-2027) provides up-to-date, research-based guidance on orchard management, pests, chemicals, harvest, food safety, marketing, and precision agriculture for commercial growers and other fruit industry personnel.

This is an illustrated guide to the vegetative propagation of nut trees.

This course prepares you to grow berries, from choosing varieties, to planting, to handling pests and diseases. Growing can be rewarding and profitable.

Unless soils are deficient in a nutrient, such as sandy soils, fruit trees respond more to nitrogen (N) application than any other nutrient.

Extension educators have produced videos, on-line courses, and other tools to assist growers in their employee training efforts. Young and beginning growers will also find the resources useful for self-paced learning.

Whether apple fruits will be sold fresh, stored for wholesale, or sold for processing, estimating optimum harvest dates is critical.

Grapes are produced in many areas throughout the Commonwealth and lend themselves well to small-scale and part-time farming operations.

Early-season yield and packout predictions are useful for growers and packers to plan for adequate harvest labor and storage space and to develop an orderly marketing plan.