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Corn and Soybean Management
This site will keep you abreast of research and recommendations on these crops. You’ll also find links to many other good sources of information on corn and soybean management.
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Cover Crops
Cover crops can play many important roles in cropping systems that are well recognized: preventing soil erosion, enhancing soil carbon, reducing drought stress, suppressing weeds, minimizing nutrient runoff and providing supplemental forage.
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Environmental Soil Science
The program seeks to provide unbiased information and advice on issues that impact sustainable use and conservation of our soil resources, remediation and reclamation of polluted and degraded soils such a brownfields and mined lands, and soil based recycling of residual materials from agricultural, municipal, and industrial waste streams.
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Forages
The forage industry is the major agricultural enterprise in Pennsylvania and in the northeastern United States. Forages are the backbone of Pennsylvania's agriculture and rural economy.
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Geospatial Technology
This program specializes in the use of GIS and related advanced information system technologies for environmental assessment, agriculture, and land management and planning.
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Nutrient Management
This program provides a comprehensive source of information about Pennsylvania's Nutrient Management Act (Act 38, 2005) Program, and associated technical guidance and educational information. It also provides limited information concerning related programs.
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Publications
Crop and Soil Sciences' fact sheets, trial reports, newsletters, guides, and brochures.
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Small Grains
This site is designed to keep you abreast of of research and recommendations on small grain crops.
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Soil Management
This program provides information to manage agricultural soil for optimum crop yields and at the same time maintaining or improving the capacity of soil to provide essential ecosystem functions.
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Sustainable Agriculture
Food and agricultural systems that are economically, environmentally, and socially sound, now and in the future.
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Turfgrass Management
The turfgrass industry is a critical component of the success of Penn State's turfgrass programs. Find out more about the interactions between Penn State and those in the turfgrass industry.
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Weed Management
The agronomic weed science extension program at Penn State focuses on issues relating to herbicide use, weed biology and ecology, integrated pest management (IPM), cover crop use, and other issues pertaining to the management of weeds in corn, soybeans, forages, and small grains.