Tools and Apps

The Job Description Generator is an online tool that automates the process so preparing a job description is quick and easy.

Goal-setting worksheet to help outline specific goals for a dairy advisory team with an example

This curriculum package will allow you to prepare your clients for certification with Penn State Extension's Food Safety Manager Prep Course.

This mapping instrument has been designed to assist policymakers, entrepreneurs, farmers, and other food system actors to make informed decisions concerning local development.

FEAAD is a user friendly model designed to evaluate energy use, nutrient balances, greenhouse gas emissions, and economic outcomes for different agricultural systems.

This quick exercise will help you to determine the Proportional Stock Density (PSD) for your pond to help in managing the bass and bluegill population.

Analyze the potential economic performance of an anaerobic digester on a swine farm

This example shows how to complete the Costs to Raise Replacement Heifers spreadsheet and uses data from Penn State research.

A tool to determine the actual costs of raising heifers on any dairy operation

This web map summarizes PFAS monitoring data from both public supply wells and private wells across Pennsylvania.

Explore Pennsylvania roadside spring water quality with this interactive map. This map shows levels of contaminants, safe drinking water standards, and how water quality varies across the state.

This web application provides wine grape cultivar-specific information, vineyard performance, wine production, and sales trends state- and county-wide.

This spreadsheet-based tool can be used to assess the economic impact of a dairy farmer's providing manure to a community (regional) anaerobic digester.

Este árbol de decisiones fue diseñado para ayudarle a decidir qué fuentes de nutrientes orgánicos utilizar y cuánto aplicar.

This Decision Tree was designed to help you decide which organic nutrient sources to use and how much to apply.

This training package includes videos on food safety for apple packinghouses, covering foodborne illnesses, contamination routes, and sanitation programs.

Use this spreadsheet to price your standing corn for silage.

Use this tool to estimate energy and cost savings from installing an engine heater timer for your tractor.

Use this calculator tool to estimate energy use from various field operations for a farm.

Calculate the energy savings from adding a Variable Speed Drive (VSD) to a milking system

Estimate energy savings from efficient barn ventilation

Use this calculator tool to estimate energy and cost savings from high efficiency electric motors.

Use this calculator to estimate the energy savings from using well water to pre-cool milk on the farm.

To make calculating seed density for growing microgreens easy, we have developed a microgreens seed density calculator.

Bean Cam is a free App developed to help farmers with early stand count assessments in soybeans.