Guides and Publications

Record your farm's receipts and expenses to help analyze and manage the farm business.

Learn the details of growing mushrooms on a large scale.

Identify and manage common diseases in your lawn.

Understand the importance and benefits of aquatic plants, and learn how to manage them in your pond.

Select trees for planting in your towns and cities.

Identify, monitor, and control disease and insect pests affecting your Christmas tree farm.

Identify common diseases and physiological disorders affecting potatoes.

Find out what's plaguing your vegetables.

Grow, harvest, and use the most common herbs.

Develop biocontrol and IPM systems that will maximize yields while reducing pesticide usage in greenhouses.

Develop a wildlife management plan for your property.

Stories of Penn State Extension over the past century.

Examine the processing and safety issues associated with making biodiesel fuel for small-scale noncommercial use and production.

Identify and manage the aquatic plants growing in your pond.

Help prepare young people to function in a diverse society and world.

Success of a heifer-rearing program can be evaluated by monitoring height and weight of heifers and comparing the results against the herd's growth goals.

This four-session curriculum guide uses children's books to introduce kids ages 5 to 7 to financial concepts on earning, spending, saving and borrowing money. The guide also provides lessons for their parents on the same topics. Parents' lessons include tips and tools to influence, positively, their children's money skills, knowledge and attitudes. A detailed implementation guide is included for educators and volunteers to implement the program.

This poster gives tips for keeping your ingredient mixing area clean.

Farm management tools for financial success. Along with the Farm Sense course, this 78-page guide introduces three basic financial records—the cash flow statement, the balance sheet, and the income statement.