Thriving Ag Project

Thriving Ag Project Newsletter: February 2026 - mailchi.mp/d65846539689/t…

Tarun Kumanduri recently completed an interactive dashboard for the general public, "Impacts of Future Scenarios on Nitrogen Loss from Agricultural Supply Chains in the Chesapeake Bay": nitrogen-project.fewslab.org.

Sheryl Hosler, a postdoctoral scholar at Penn State, presented her poster, "Multi-Species Mixtures Mediate Environmental Effects on Cover Crop Productivity," at the 2025 Ecological Society of America Conference in Baltimore, MD.

Excellent article by Karl Blankenship from the Chesapeake Bay Journal on our ongoing efforts to understand the mechanistic processes driving nitrogen and phosphorus losses from agricultural catchments in the Chesapeake Bay! bayjournal.com/news/study-aim…

Catch up on some exciting project team accomplishments in the Thriving Ag Project July 2025 Newsletter: mailchi.mp/9b4e74149ed4/t….

Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences News posted a new story about Thriving Ag Team members' work, "Some water conservation programs may get more value by targeting rural farms" psu.edu/news/agricultu….

This report contains photos of agricultural best management practices (BMPs), including before-and-after sets of photos and after-only photos: researchgate.net/publication/39….

Thriving Ag Project: March 2025 Newsletter - mailchi.mp/0d63c2b7e089/t…

Check out the latest Thriving Ag newsletter here: mailchi.mp/42b6b0db899d/t….

Dr. Dave Abler, the Thriving Agricultural Systems in Urbanized Landscapes project's director, gave an overview of the project and shared some findings from the project so far in a webinar on Extension Connect, youtu.be/iVxyOK2j1K4?si… via @YouTube.

In a new publication, Thriving Ag team members Dan Read and Lisa Wainger outline a suite of techniques that can be effective at engaging agricultural landowners about conservation practices depending on what stage of the adoption process they are at: doi.org/10.1007/s00267….

Thriving Ag Project: July 2024 Newsletter - mailchi.mp/e00ea378bbaf/t…

Two of our Penn State Thriving Ag project team members were recently recognized for achievements during the 2024 Graduate Student Award Celebration, on March 20 on the University Park campus. Congrats Andrew Lefever and Sadie Sharma! psu.edu/news/agricultu…

Check out the Thriving Ag March 2024 Newsletter: mailchi.mp/f71c9ac993bb/t…

Catch up on the Thriving Ag team's latest accomplishments and upcoming activities in the March 2024 Quarterly Report: drive.google.com/file/d/126iuxP….

Thriving Ag Project: December 2023 Newsletter - mailchi.mp/e959a54576f3/t…

Team members at Penn State completed an experiment this August to assess consumers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for local foods across different urban-rural landscapes. Read more about the experiment here: thrivingag.org/news-activitie….

Catch up on the Thriving Ag Team's most recent work in the December 2023 Quarterly Report: drive.google.com/file/d/12zjeuB….

Check out the Thriving Ag Project's October 2023 Newsletter - mailchi.mp/1d3058dc7c60/t…