News For November 2001
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Thursday November 29, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Cooperative Extension soon will offer a course to teach small business owners and operators how to use the Internet.
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Thursday November 29, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seeks comments until Jan. 19, 2002 on proposed pesticide product labeling designed to reduce spray drift. A specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences urges crop producers and others to respond.
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Thursday November 29, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- With breeding and hunting seasons for white-tailed deer upon us, more deer are crossing Pennsylvania highways, says a wildlife biologist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Thursday November 29, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Groundwater supplies under much of Pennsylvania that dwindled to alarmingly low levels during the drought of 1999 never fully recovered and have fallen again during this year's extremely dry weather, according to a water resources extension specialist in Penn State 's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Thursday November 29, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Some people, depending on their definitions of the term "soy-diesel," may have misinterpreted recent warnings from an expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences on the dangers of burning soy-diesel blended with diesel fuel in engines.
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Thursday November 29, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Hunters will be able to cooperate this fall in a joint Penn State-Pennsylvania Game Commission study of hunter movement, success and attitudes in Sproul State Forest in northcentral Pennsylvania.
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Thursday November 29, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Deer hunting from tree stands can be more productive, but using them can be dangerous, according to a hunting safety expert in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences. Earle Robbins, Penn State Cooperative Extension Agent in Tioga County, says that nationwide, about 10 hunters every year are killed in falls from tree stands, while many others suffer temporary or permanent injury.
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Wednesday November 21, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Widespread drought in Pennsylvania -- combined with the annual shower of colored leaves and twigs -- are making forests particularly flammable this fall. The wildfires flaring up across the state -- although unfortunate -- serve to illustrate the important role "prescribed burning" can play in forest management, says a forest ecologist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Tuesday November 13, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Penn State Dairy Alliance has developed a program to provide hands-on training in data collection and interpretation for chief financial officers of dairy farms.
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Tuesday November 13, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Successful vegetable storage depends on proper temperature and humidity, gentle handling and starting with high-quality vegetables, says a vegetable specialist in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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Tuesday November 06, 2001More »
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Payments by the federal government to American farmers may not only be ineffective in preserving farms, but may actually accelerate the movement of farmers out of agriculture, according to a study co-authored by a researcher in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.