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A warm fall and excessive growth can set up your small grains or cover crops for winter injury.

Organic cover crop management does not promote insect damage in tilled and no-til corn systems.

Planting cover crops after annual crop harvest is important to maintain and improve soil health. In September, there are still many cover crop options, but they become fewer as time moves on.

With the new interest in grazing cover crops, are there effects on soil health and compaction? The results of an on-farm Pennsylvania study looking into this are presented here.

Cover crops are an important component of any cropping system. Planting them immediately after silage or grain harvest is key to success.

This in-depth report presents the findings of a survey conducted by Penn State Extension scientists in collaboration with Pasa Sustainable Agriculture.

Learn how cover crops can be used to prevent soil erosion and increase soil health, along with how producers can achieve maximum returns from cover cropping.

Learn how cover crops within crop rotations can provide low-cost forage for grazing, along with highlighting the importance for the livestock owner to understand nutritional, infrastructure, and other needs of their class of livestock.

This document includes a checklist of the information you will need to contact an insurance provider to purchase crop insurance.

By diversifying, you are spreading the downside risk over more than one enterprise.

Information on grazing cover crops for soil health.

Describes the timing, species, and equipment for frost seeding cover crops in small grains and for pasture renovation.

Information on organic farming regulations, and production and marketing practices for feed and forage crop producers.

Recap the 2025 crop production season, discover agronomic innovations, and earn valuable certification credits. Attendees gain expert insights, network with industry leaders, and enjoy a buffet lunch.

This case study demonstrates how a grazing dairy farmer in southeastern Pennsylvania beats the summer slump with cool- and warm-season annuals established with no-till practices.

The adoption of no-tillage systems in Pennsylvania creates opportunities to graze after harvest. This case study examines the integration of grazing and no-tillage on a grain farm.

This case study shows how a farmer in northwestern Pennsylvania is using annuals and perennials to expand his grazing season while managing for reduced inputs and improved soil health through integration of grazing and no-tillage.

Explore 2025 crop results, innovations, and agronomic research at Crops Day 2026 with Penn State Extension specialists.

The Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (NE-SARE) program provides modest funding to farmers who would like to initiate their own on-farm research.

This article discusses tailoring a cover crop mixture, building a complementary mix, determining which species to use, methods to establish mixtures, and considerations when terminating mixtures.

This publication emphasizes the natural principles of the no-till system and discusses 14 management techniques for improving soil health.

This publication is intended to help agricultural producers, gardeners, and others assess the quality of their soil.

Effective nutrient management requires decisions to be made at several different levels of detail: strategic, tactical, and operational (Figure 1).

The focus of nutrient management is rapidly evolving from optimizing agronomic production and economic returns of crop production to balancing farm production with environmental protection.

Nutrient management has taken on new meaning in recent times. Soil fertility traditionally dealt with supplying and managing nutrients to meet crop production requirements.