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Growing Great Buffers is a series of short, helpful videos that describe step-by-step maintenance tasks needed for newly planted riparian buffers.

Learn the basics of how to transition your farm to organic crop production.

Forest "Regeneration" is an important word to know. It has two meanings that are related but different. It is a process observed by looking down in the woods, and it is the future forest.

Industrial hemp is reported to have hundreds, if not thousands of uses. Penn State Extension educators spend some time with growers on their farms looking at hemp growing for CBD extraction.

Learn the distinguishing characteristics to help you accurately identify the invasive Japanese stiltgrass (Microstegium vimineum).

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

Baleage is a fermented forage produced at a higher moisture content than dry hay. Careful steps are needed to ensure the forage is produced in a way that preserves its quality.

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

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.

Before establishing a new orchard block, carefully assess all the factors that will affect fruit quality, production efficiency, and orchard sustainability.

This video highlights the top hazards that can be found while working around grain and discusses best practices for promoting safety.

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

A grazing dairy in southeastern Pennsylvania meets summer forage needs with annual warm season mixtures planted in a continuous no-till system.

In this video, Dr. Paul Esker, Penn State Extension Field Crops Plant Pathologist tells us about the current growth stages in small grains, focusing on barley and winter wheat.

Crop management decisions are based on knowledge of the crop development stage. Here are some tips to know the growth stages in small grains.

These videos provide basic information on high tunnel structures and pointers for their installation.

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

There are many reasons to improve your horse pastures, like equine health and environmental quality. But how do you know if your pasture needs improvement? These videos will explain why and how to evaluate horse pastures.

This three-part series identifies resources that can be used by new or experienced farmers to guide them through the risk management planning process.

Manure injection conserves the benefits of no-till while reducing soluble phosphorus in runoff caused by high phosphorus concentrations at the soil surface. Less odor and decreases in nitrogen losses are additional benefits.

This video describes basic questions about hazards associated with manure pits located beneath solid and slatted floor dairy barns that incorporates manure storage.

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

A scale model is used to show risks of working in an empty manure pit without taking at least four simple precautions to ensure safe entry.

Foolish Freddie demonstrates the proper approach to working in and around manure storages. Sensible steps that must be taken to assure safe entry and working conditions are shown in scale model manure storage.

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