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Title: Agricultural Wetlands: Values for Landowners
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Focuses on values of wetlands in agricultural areas
Title: Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
Format: Materials
Audience: Farmers
Length: Varies
Contact: Appropriate Technology Transfer for Rural Areas
Description: Information packets, resource lists, and summaries on low-input
sustainable agriculture
Title: BMP Manual For Pennsylvania Livestock and Poultry Operations
Format: Book
Audience: Farmers
Length: 10 chapters, plus numerous appendixes
Contact: Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission
Description: Manual outlines Best Management Practices that can assist
livestock and poultry operations in their efforts to protect local natural resources
Title: Clean Water - A Time To Choose
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Farmers
Length: 15 minutes
Contact: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: Proper management of agrichemicals to minimize effects on
ground and surface water
Title: Common Ground
Format: Video
Audience: Citizens
Length: 60 minutes
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Impact of farming on the environment and new solutions including
PA Chesapeake Bay Program
Title: Conservation Plants for the Northeast
Format: Directory
Audience: General
Length: 43 pp
Contact: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: Plants suited to different site conditions throughout the
Northeastern U.S.
Title: Crop Management Associations
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 1 page
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Explains services provided by Crop Management Associations
Title: Educational Programs Available Through the Agricultural Analytical
Services Lab
Format: Brochure
Audience: General
Length: 2 PP
Contact: Agricultural Analytical Services Laboratory
Description: General information on available testing programs including
soil fertility/plant analysis
Title: Farmers and Landowners: Manage Your Natural Resources With One Plan
Format: Brochure
Audience: Farmers and landowners
Length: 1 page
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: How to develop an integrated resource plan
Title: A Field Guide to Conservation Funding Programs for Landowner and
the Farming Community
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers, landowners
Length: 1 PP
Contact: Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Description: Lists funding programs and what practices are funded under
those programs
Title: GreenWorks for Pennsylvania: Faces on the Farm, Think Globally, Eat
Locally
Format: Video
Audience: General
Length: Approx. 30 minutes per video
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Recordings of GreenWorks television shows, focused on various
environmental issues
Title: How To Calibrate A Manure Spreader
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 8.5 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Step-by-step instructions
Title: Integrated Pest Management
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Farmers and general
Length: Approximately 20 minutes each
Contact: PA Department of Agriculture
Description: A series of IPM slides covering the following topics: agronomic,
vegetable, forestry, parks, Christmas trees, fruits
Title: Landowner Financial Assistance Funding Program
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Landowners
Length: 2 PP
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Bay Financial Assistance Funding Program (cost share program)
has averaged about $2 million dollars annually in direct financial grants to
Pennsylvania farmers for the control of critical nonpoint source water pollution
Title: Livestock and Poultry Operations in PA
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 2 PP
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Explains categories and requirements for livestock and poultry
operation in PA, defines the acronyms: CAO, AFO, CAFO and LIO
Title: Managing Phosphorous for Agriculture and the Environment
Format: Booklet
Audience: Farmers, officials, technicians
Length: 16 PP
Contact: Penn State University - Publications Distribution Center
Description: Covers essential scientific information about phosphorus
and how it behaves in soil, and current concerns about phosphorus runoff from
agriculture
Title: Managing Riparian Forest Buffer Vegetation - Plants that may be Poisonous
or Harmful to Livestock
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Agricultural and general
Length: 1 PP
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: This fact sheet provides information and species of plants
that may be toxic or harmful to livestock and which may be found in riparian
areas along streams
Title: Manure Management Manual
Format: Booklet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 8 booklets
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Livestock manure handling: dairy, swine, poultry, beef,
veal, etc.
Title: Manure: Where Does It Go From Here?
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Farmers
Length: 20 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Introduction to manure management with connection to PA
Chesapeake Bay Program
Title: Moving Toward Sustainability
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 80.5 minutes
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Machinery management, pest management, soil management
Title: Nutrient Management
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Farmers
Length: 20 minutes
Contact: Penn State University - County Cooperative Extension Offices
Description: Overview of nutrient management from economic and environmental
perspective
Title: Nutrient Management: Crop Production and Water Quality
Format: Book
Audience: Farmers
Length: 44 PP ($10)
Contact: Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service
Description: Guide to designing and sustaining an economically and environmentally
sound nutrient management program
Title: Nutrient Management Down On The Farm: Bella's Best Management Practices
Format: Booklet
Audience: Children
Length: 28 PP
Contact: Sullivan County Conservation District
Description: Story of Bella the cow and how nutrient management has made
her life better
Title: Nutrient Management Legislation In Pennsylvania: A Summary of the
Final Regulations
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 8 PP
Contact: Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission, Penn State University
- Publications Distribution Center
Description: Highlights the main points of the Nutrient Management Act
and the regulations
Title: Nutrient Management Makes $ense
Format: Brochure
Audience: Farmers
Length: 4 PP
Contact: PA Chesapeake Bay Education Office
Description: Discusses benefits of nutrient management planning and where
to get assistance
Title: One Plan Approach For Farmers
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 11.5 minutes
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Three farmers explain how they developed integrated resource
management plans
Title: Penn State University Agronomy Fact Sheet Series
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers
Length: Varies (series of 45)
Contact: Pennsylvania State University - Publications Distribution Center
Description: Forage crops, nutrient management, phosphorus, and nitrogen
management in corn, etc.
Title: Pennsylvania's Nutrient Management Act: Who Will Be Affected?
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 4 PP
Contact: Pennsylvania State Conservation Commission, Penn State University
- Publications Distribution Center
Description: Defines concentrated animal operations and example of calculations
for animal density
Title: Pennsylvania's Nutrient Management Law
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 2 PP
Contact: PA Association of Conservation Districts, Inc.
Description: Contains general facts about Pennsylvania's Act 6 legislation
Title: Pesticide Safety for the Private Applicator
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: General
Length: 20 minutes
Contact: PA Department of Agriculture
Description: Discusses proper pesticide application with emphasis on
safety precautions
Title: Question and Answer Guide To No-Till Farming
Format: Booklet
Audience: Farmers
Length: 106 PP
Contact: Syngenta Corporation
Description: Answers to the most commonly asked questions about no-till
farming
Title: Stream Bank Fencing Program
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Landowners
Length: 2 PP
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: Landowners with existing livestock operations along streams
in the Susquehanna or Potomac River basins of Pennsylvania may participate in
DEP's Stream Bank Fencing Program
Title: Tell It Like It Is
Format: Video
Audience: Farmers
Length: 17 minutes
Contact: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: How three farmers, including one from PA, protect soil and
water by complying with '85 and '90 Farm Bills
Title: Waterborne Pathogens in Agricultural Watersheds
Format: Book
Audience: Farmers, professionals
Length: 68 PP ($9)
Contact: Natural Resource, Agriculture, and Engineering Service
Description: Introduces readers to disease-causing organisms in agricultural
watersheds that may contaminate water
Title: The Water Erosion Process
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Farmers, students, general
Length: 10 minutes
Contact: Natural Resources Conservation Service
Description: Explains the soil erosion process
Title: The Wealth in Wetlands
Format: Video
Audience: Agricultural and general
Length: 23 minutes
Contact: National Association of Conservation Districts
Description: Interviews with 5 farmers who believe there is a place for
wetlands on their farms; also includes overview of wetland losses, restoration
methods, and sources of help
Title: Understanding CAFO's (Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations)
Format: Fact sheet
Audience: Agricultural, citizens and general
Length: 2 PP
Contact: PA Department of Environmental Protection - Bureau of Watershed
Management
Description: This fact sheet describes what a CAFO is and how CAFO's are
regulated
Title: Using Newspaper for Animal Bedding
Format: Slide and tape set
Audience: Farmers
Length: 14 minutes
Contact: Penn State University- County Cooperative Extension Offices
Description: Advantages of using newspaper for bedding and supply sources