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Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst: Farm Evaluation System
This publication provides an overview of Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst, a voluntary farm evaluation program that can be used to confirm that a farm is managed in an environmentally sensitive way. (This publication is a six-panel publication. For easiest reading, print both PDF pages, put them together with printing facing out, then make two folds to put the panels into the original publication configuration.)
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC133
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Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst: Getting Started: Introduction
This two-page fact sheet explains the importance of evaluating a farm's impact on water quality and the contents of the Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst program, a voluntary program farmers can use to evaluate how their management practices influence the environment. Part of the Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst farm evaluation series.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC141
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Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst: Getting Started: Preliminary Screening Quiz
This preliminary screening quiz can help prioritize more detailed farmstead evaluations, which are available through the Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst program. Part of the Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst farm evaluation series.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC142
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Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst: Getting Started: Farmstead Map
A farmstead map can record important features that influence water quality. A farmstead map also makes it easier to evaluate potential sources of pollution and local wells, septic tanks, and absorption fields when they need maintenance. This two-page fact sheet explains why and how to make a farmstead map. Part of the Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst farm evaluation series.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC143
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Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst: Overall Farmstead Ranking
This two-page form is designed for collecting the average rankings from completed Farm-A-Syst publications in one place for an overall comparison and interpretation. Part of the Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst farm evaluation series.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC144
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Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst: A Sample Post-Evaluation Survey
This four-page survey gives participants in the Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst farm evaluation system a chance to give feedback about the program and its materials. Part of the Pennsylvania Farm-A-Syst farm evaluation series.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC145
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Penn State Agronomy Guide 2013-2014
$20.00
This nearly 400-page, wire-o bound guide was prepared by Penn State extension specialists in agronomy, entomology, and plant pathology; U.S. Pasture Laboratory staff; county extension educators; seed, fertilizer, lime, and pesticide industry personnel; and representatives of state agricultural and environmental government agencies. It is organized into two sections. Part 1 covers crop and soil management, as well as storing seed and grain and farm management and budgeting. Part 2 covers pest management, and includes recommendations for managing pests in corn, grain sorghum, soybeans, small grains, and forages.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
AGRS-026
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Agronomy Facts 11: Inoculation of Forage and Grain Legumes
Legumes have the ability to form a mutually beneficial relationship with certain soil bacteria. The benefit to the plant is that these bacteria can take nitrogen from the air and make it available to the plant. This fact sheet describes the inoculation process to ensure Rhizobia bacteria growth for nitrogen fixation.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC048
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Turfgrass Species for Pennsylvania
Turfgrasses are fine-textured grass species that form a uniform, persistent population of plants and that tolerate traffic and low mowing heights (usually two inches or below). Only a few grass species produce acceptable turf in Pennsylvania. These grasses can be divided into two groups, the cool-season turfgrasses and the warm-season turfgrasses.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
EC395
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Developing an Integrated Turfgrass Pest Management Program
Turfgrasses, like all other plants, are subject to the ravages of pests. Most turfgrass pests are weeds, diseases, or insects, but they can also include rodents, birds, and pets. It is only when these pests build up to sufficient levels to cause intolerable damage that they need to be controlled. Establishing a pest management program for turf requires planning, vigilance, and, above all, knowledge of turfgrass culture. It also requires a complete understanding of the pests, including recognition of the pest and the damage it causes, its life cycle, environmental or cultural conditions that favor its development, and methods of control. Note: Available in PDF only; not available in hard copy from the Publications Distribution Center.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
EC404
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Turfgrass Establishment
This fact sheet describes the general steps in turfgrass establishment.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
SC163
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Control of Summer Annual Grass Weeds in Turfgrasses
Summer annual grasses continue to be pervasive weed problems in many turfgrass areas throughout Pennsylvania. The most common summer annual grasses in turf include crabgrasses (Digitaria spp.), goosegrass (Eleusine indica), foxtails (Setaria spp.), and barnyardgrass (Echinochloa crusgalli). Satisfactory control of these weeds can be obtained by cultural and chemical methods, provided the life cycle of the plant is understood.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC078
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Moss in the Lawn
Moss is one of the most persistent and annoying weeds that occurs in home lawns. It grows in thin, weak turfgrasses but does not thrive in stands of dense, vigorous turf. This one-page flyer explains how to deal with moss in your lawn.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
UC094
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Managing Turfgrass Diseases
$4.50
This 32-page, full-color publication explains how to identify and manage common lawn and turfgrass diseases. It includes sections on disease diagnosis and control and detailed information about turf diseases such as dollar spot, damping-off diseases, powdery mildew, and brown patch.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
AGRS-101
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Land Resource Map of Pennsylvania
$3.25
This 48-by-56-inch map uses color coding to depict the locations of 153 soil units in Pennsylvania. Each unit is described in terms of depth, slope, acidity, color, geologic source and mode of accumulation, texture, drainage, and crop suitability.
Department:
Crop & Soil Sciences
Catalog Number:
AGRS-022
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