Ag Literacy

Learn more about the essential role agriculture plays in bringing food, fiber, and more to your lives!

A newly revamped lineup of trainings designed to better support today's conservation professionals.

Learn to test, safeguard, and treat your well or spring water. Discover inspection and upkeep tips to protect your family, property, and our shared groundwater.

In this video, learn how to take representative soil samples in agronomic fields.

Learn how the produce safety rule requires you to make visitors aware of your farm's food safety policies and procedures.

Webinar for those serving agriculture, focused on stress awareness and support strategies for farm families.

Explore nature through simple journaling techniques that build observation skills and creativity. This hands-on workshop welcomes all ages to connect with the outdoors—no experience needed.

Tree-of-heaven is especially difficult to eliminate. Learn when and how to apply control measures, including herbicides, to eradicate this prolific tree.

Sheep producers struggle daily with anthelmintic resistance and the impact this resistance has on flock productivity and health. Managed grazing strategies may be one way to reduce reliance on anthelmintics to combat growing resistance concerns.

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 provides strategies for conserving forest biodiversity, provides a brief overview of species of concern in Pennsylvania, and suggests ways you can conserve biodiversity in your forest.

Key points to help those working in the Ag industry understand what silo gas is and how it is created.

This video outlines the basic steps you can take to plan a vegetable crop rotation from the start.

There are many possible production scenarios for beef cattle. This video will explain two different types of production, grass-fed versus grain-fed beef.

These videos will discuss the basics of ruminant nutrition relative to how forage quality affects ruminal function and animal performance.

Nitrogen availability in soils is controlled by a process called the nitrogen cycle. This video explores two pieces of the cycle - immobilization and mineralization.

Arthropods, including plant pests and biocontrol agents, are often difficult to identify with the naked eye.

This video gives details about Microbial Water Quality under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Find out if your farm is subject to a microbial water quality profile for the water source you use during growing.

This video gives you an overview of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). It reviews all seven major rules of FSMA and briefly covers compliance requirements.

This video gives details about Agricultural Water under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). Some farms are not subject to the agricultural water requirements. Find out if your farm needs to comply.

Learn more about the Produce Safety Rule under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). It will help you determine whether your operation meets the definition of "farm" and is subject to the produce rule.

Get up-to-date strategies and detailed herbicide tables for managing weeds in corn, sorghum, soybeans, small grains, and forages across the Mid-Atlantic region.

Producer video describing the benefits, challenges, and marketing opportunities of a beef feeding operation.

Producer video describing the benefits, challenges, and marketing opportunities of a cow-calf operation.

Enhanced confidence in the ability to effectively market grain typically comes with a continuous exploration of concepts, market trends and historical information.