Tools and Apps

The Open Crop Manager (OCM) platform provides a system for crop production information, scouting, and database management to help increase knowledge, crop sustainability, and profitability.

This calculator was designed to help hydroponic growers who recirculate their nutrient solutions back-add single elements to optimize their nutrient solutions and save fertilizer dollars.

This tool will assist growers with the decision making process of determining the cost of two trellis systems.

This instrument was created through funding from The Rockefeller Foundation to enable community leaders with rudimentary knowledge of broadband technology to create broadband implementation plans for their communities.

USDA Risk Management Checklist in Spanish.

The ReadyAG© workbook is designed to help farm and ranch owners be better prepared to deal with disasters and catastrophic events that can occur on their farm or ranch.

The Penn State Extension Food Safety Plans for Small-Scale Cheesemakers helps cheesemakers conduct risk assessments of their processes and develop a Food Safety System for their facility.

Introducing major change into our daily lives can be very challenging. Choosing a heart-healthy lifestyle is like setting off on a journey – it requires a step-by-step approach.

Muchas granjas urbanas tienen múltiples fuentes de financiamiento y una superficie limitada para producir sus cultivos.

A calculator to allow you to make individual comparisons of calcium products.

Use this spreadsheet to estimate the economic returns from an on-farm anaerobic digester.

This tool allows you to make a prediction for how much nitrogen (N) fertilizer is needed for a corn crop based on credits that are given to soil organic matter and cover crop residues.

These tools will assist with keeping good farm records and will develop enterprise and whole-farm budgets.

Customizable spreadsheet tool for business owners to estimate the net present value (NPV) of an investment to start or expand a value-added dairy foods processing venture.

Use these spray record-keeping spreadsheets with an Integrated Pest Management plan. Talk to your Extension educator if you need help building them, or view the IPM videos and articles available here.

A spreadsheet tool for assessing cover crops for improving soil health in strawberry plantings.

A spreadsheet tool for assessing cover crops for improving soil health in winter squash plantings.

A spreadsheet tool for assessing cover crops for improving soil health in tomato plantings.

A spreadsheet tool for assessing pre-plant practices for improving soil health in orchards.

A calculator to help you apply the optimum rate of calcium per season to minimize fruit bitter pit.

A spreadsheet tool to help you assess whether increasing the number of times you harvest Honeycrisp will be cost-effective based on potential reductions in premature fruit drop and bitter pit.

A tool to help you assess whether or not to stem clip Honeycrisp based on the potential increase in fruit packout versus increases in harvest costs.

Use the Monthly Monitor to track key production and financial indicators for dairy advisory teams.

This map represents FCC data in terms of broadband service for the purpose of enabling bidders to better estimate their project costs in providing service to locations not having broadband services as defined by the FCC.

Customizable spreadsheets will assist organic grain farmers to estimate profitability and document management of a 3-year crop rotation.