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Underused Woody Ornamentals: Halesia carolina
One of the early flowering small trees I anxiously await every spring is Halesia carolina, Carolina silverbell. - Articles
Solid Waste Storage Facilities
A Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training article about the benefits of solid waste storage facilities, available options, management practices, and additional resources. - Articles
Liquid Waste Storage Facilities
A Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training article about the benefits of liquid waste storage facilities, available options, management practices, and additional resources. -
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Warm Season Annuals and Alfalfa after Frost
Frost increases the risk of bloat in alfalfa as well as prussic acid, i.e. cyanide poisoning, and nitrates in warm season annuals. - Articles
What Municipalities Can't Do in Regulating Land Use
Local zoning authority in Pennsylvania is defined just as much by what a municipality cannot do as by what it can. - Articles
Battery 101: How Energy Storage Is Powering Our Energy Future
How does a battery work and what’s new with them? - Articles
Conservation Practices Improve Organic Dairy Operation
Multi-generation organic dairy farm leverages conservation funding to protect water quality while improving operational efficiency - Articles
Mitigation of Visual Impacts for Large-Scale Solar
This guide aims to address how solar developers can help work with communities to mitigate these concerns. - Articles
Doing Right by the Creek: ACAP Helps a Perry County Farm
Funding and technical support helped a Perry County farmer make practical improvements that benefited both his operation and the local creek. - Articles
Five Tips for Retail Farm Market Success
A successful farm market offers something more valuable than a transaction: confidence in the product, connection to the farm, and an experience customers want to repeat. - Articles
Diversions
A Center for Agricultural Conservation Assistance Training article about the benefits of diversions, available options, management practices, and additional resources. - Articles
Selecting the Right Seeding and Transplanting Strategies
Figure out which strategies and what equipment fit with your scale, your finances, and your style with this overview. - Articles
Strawberry Disease Identification: Neopestalotiopsis (aka Pestalotia) or a More Traditional Disease?
Neopestalotiopsis (Pestalotia) is a strawberry disease that has been causing problems on the East Coast since 2020. - Articles
Branding Your Farm Business
Branding goes beyond designing a visually appealing logo for your farm business. Your brand becomes your image and a link to your reputation. - Articles
Agritourism Diversification: Petting Zoos on the Farm
Petting zoos are an attractive feature to some agritourism businesses. This article outlines three areas of consideration prior to opening a petting zoo to visitors. - Articles
Cultivating Your E-Experience: Understanding Aspects of Customer Communications
A solid understanding of customer needs and types of communication and complaining customers will position you to provide a high-quality online customer communication experience. - Articles
Cultivating Your E-Experience: Responding to Consumer Communications
Personal, timely, and attentive responsiveness to consumer communications is a key component to consumers' e-experience. - Articles
Shipping Dairy Foods Direct to Consumers
Shipping of dairy foods directly to consumers is on the rise as online purchases are increasing. This article covers essential packaging and shipping issues that dairy processors will need for success. -
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Performance Management in Your Beef Cattle Herd
Reviewing performance expectations quarterly in a beef cattle herd can help producers promptly identify issues and increase profit potential. - Articles
What is Your Corn Fodder Worth?
This article helps explain the benefits and disadvantages of different corn fodder management practices. - Articles
Wind Energy in Pennsylvania
Contemporary wind energy involves the conversion of kinetic energy in the wind into electricity via wind turbines. - Articles
Are There Any Buns in the Oven? Methods of Pregnancy Testing in Small Ruminants
Learn multiple different methods for determining positive pregnancy in small ruminants. - Articles
Keystone Shrubs of Pennsylvania
Keystone shrubs are important for our ecosystems, and many can be easily grown in the home landscape given the right conditions.
























