Resource Category: Farm Innovations

Pennsylvania farmers—explore how the Agricultural Innovation Grant can help you expand your growing operation! In this webinar, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture (PDA) staff Mike Roth provides more information about the program, including what projects are eligible and how to apply. 

Each year at our annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference, we showcase Farm Innovations—tools and techniques to help increase efficiency, reduce waste, steward the land, and make it a little easier to run your farm. Often featuring unique re-uses of existing on-farm resources, these innovations can encompass anything from DIY machinery to simple time-saving strategies.

Each year at our annual Sustainable Agriculture Conference we showcase Farm Innovations—tools and techniques to help increase efficiency, reduce waste, steward the land, and make it a little easier to run your farm. Often featuring unique re-uses of existing on-farm resources, these innovations can encompass anything from DIY machinery to simple time-saving strategies. From biogas […]

From a chicken palace to a mobile herb dryer, our 2023 Farm Innovations show featured a lot of impressive builds as well as many elegant solutions to farming challenges.

Farm Innovations from 2022 featured innovative planting techniques, on-farm alternative energy systems, and some time-saving DIY field tools!

We review top findings from our new report, Financial Benchmarks for Direct-Market Vegetable Farms, and share three strategies farms can use to boost financial success.

Check out planting techniques—including a living fence—and harvest equipment to save time, trips, and back aches.

Check out unique tunnels to prevent downy mildew, a bevy of post-harvest processing devices, and simple yet powerful planting strategies.

Check out field tools that harness alternative sources of energy, record-keeping and business management software, and impressively efficient organization strategies.