By TOM BUTZLER (Editors Note: This article is the ninth in a series exploring professional opportunities for Penn State Extension agricultural educators during the 2019 summer.) I enjoy being around plants. And luckily, my job allows a lot of interaction with them, particularly vegetables ...
By TOM BUTZLER (Editor’s Note: This article is the eighth in a series exploring professional opportunities for Penn State Extension agricultural educators during the 2019 summer.) A few years ago, several Penn State extension educators and specialists received a grant for a one-acre hop ...
(Editor’s Note: This article is the seventh in a series exploring professional opportunities for Penn State Extension agricultural educators during the 2019 summer.) By TOM BUTZLER Day 2 in our horticulture tours of Oregon’s Willamette Valley started off at Oregon State University’s ...
By TOM BUTZLER For The Express What will weather conditions look like for 2020? Tough to say but the past two years were pretty rough on many growers, especially during the growing season. The biggest issue was water — too much! The National Weather Service stated that “2018 was the ...
By Tom Butzler (Editors Note: This article is the sixth in a series exploring professional opportunities for Penn State Extension agricultural educators during the 2019 summer.) The horticulture industry in Oregon is big business, over $1 billion. As with any industry, there are challenges ...
By Quentin Stocum What in the world are we thinking of and why do we do this? We go and buy a live tree, yes, for some reason we shell out good money for something that is going to dry out and leave needles, only to be discovered months later, quite often when you are in your stocking feet. ...
By Tom Butzler (Editors Note: This article is the fifth in a series exploring professional opportunities for Penn State Extension agricultural educators during the 2019 summer.) In last week’s column, I briefly described our first day of touring Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Rest was ...
By TOM BUTZLER (Editor: This article is the fourth in a series exploring professional opportunities for Penn State Extension agricultural educators during the 2019 summer.) In the previous columns, I wrote about my June professional development tour of agricultural operations in Centre ...
By Tom Butzler (Editors Note: This article is the third in a series exploring professional opportunities for Penn State Extension agricultural educators during the 2019 summer.) In the first two installments of this series, I wrote about my June professional development tour of agricultural ...
(Editors Note: This article is the second in a series exploring professional opportunities for Penn State Extension agricultural educators during the 2019 summer.) By Tom Butzler In the first installment of this series, I wrote about my June professional development tour of agricultural ...