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By tracking the number of customers who attend your market, you can easily map out your growth.

This listing describes resources that are available to farmers and farm markets during disasters.

For the strategic plan to fulfill its full potential, it needs to be continually monitored for items such as relevancy and progress on recommended actions.

The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae, a pest of apple, peach, and other fruit trees, also feeds on a wide range of both wild and cultivated plants.

Sooty blotch and flyspeck of apple are separate diseases affecting apple, crabapple, and pear trees. Oftentimes, both diseases are present on the same fruit.

The San Jose scale, once established, can be difficult and expensive to control.

The rosy apple aphid, Dysaphis plantaginea, has been a major pest of apple trees, causing both direct and indirect injury since the end of the nineteenth century.

Climatic irregularities govern the activities of the plum curculio, Conotrachelus nenuphar, a pest injurious to pome and stone fruits throughout the state.

Lesser peachtree borer is almost always associated with widespread incidence of Cytospora canker and, to a much lesser extent, pruning wounds, winter injury, and mechanical damage.

The Japanese beetle, Popillia japonica, is often the most important pest of tree-ripened peaches and can cause severe damage to other important crops.

Due to a wide array of various products containing the same active ingredient, sometimes the active ingredient is listed instead of the name of the formulated product.

Informational table showing the occurrence of insect and mite pests during the stone fruit growing season.

The green peach aphid, Myzus persicae, is a common pest of peaches in Pennsylvania. Peach trees are its primary host and overwintering source.

Biosecurity helps prevent spreading diseases and pests between farms. By following sanitation, communication, and downtime practices, conservation professionals protect agriculture and build trust.

This article describes the experiences of two Pennsylvanian forest landowners considering more than one carbon program.

A summary of the organic certification process describing the benefits and challenges

Larger aphid populations can heavily stress plants, reducing yields by up to 40%.

Las señales de mano brindan un método estándar para comunicarse visualmente con los operadores de equipos y maquinarias para mantener seguros a otros trabajadores que se encuentran en los alrededores.

La verificación previa a la operación puede evitar reparaciones costosas, ineficiencia debido al tiempo de inactividad del equipo y la posibilidad de lesiones graves.

Slugs can eat virtually all crops and inflict most of their damage during crop establishment and early growth in the spring and fall.

Belowground pests can be challenging in corn production (grain or silage), particularly when it is grown in the same fields year after year.

Las redes sociales son un factor importante para tener éxito como agricultor/a.

Social networks can be an important factor in your success as a farmer. A recent study in Delaware, Maryland, and Tennessee looked at the social networks of minority and small-acreage farmers and how those networks were linked to farm success.

In Pennsylvania field crops, black cutworm is most often a pest of corn, but can also cause trouble in wheat and tobacco.

Alfalfa weevil is one of the two most-damaging insect pests of alfalfa in Pennsylvania (the other is potato leafhopper). It is an exotic species that likely evolved in Asia, but appears to have been introduced to the U.S. at least three times.