Grant Recipient: George Wherry, Scenery Hill PA
Grant ID Number: FNE08-652
Farmer Grant Examples: 2008
The viability of growing and grazing high-sugar rye grass in southwestern Pennsylvania
Summer veggie snack mix: Product development and processing of excess summer vegetables into a value-added dried snack mix and soup blend
Farmer-built compost turner with hydraulic drive
Grant Recipient: Nigel Tudor, Weatherbury Farm, Avella PA
Grant ID Number: FNE08-650
Open range woodlands: An untapped resource for small-scale farms
Grant Recipient: Chuck Talbott, Black Oak Holler Farm, LLC, Fraziers Bottom WV
Grant ID Number: FNE08-649
Performance of red clover and oilseed radish interseeded into corn
Propagating day-neutral strawberry plugs for fall planting
A middle entrance for beehives
Using foster mother hens to raise chicks on a diversified sustainable farm
Grant Recipient: Drew Piaschyk, Lamb's Quarters Organic Farm, Plymouth NY
Grant ID Number: FNE08-645
Reduction of Imidacloprid resistance of Colorado potato beetles with an organic integrated pest management program
Grant Recipient: Megan Patterson, Green Thumb Farms, Fryeburg ME
Grant ID Number: FNE08-644
Growing and pressing sunflowers for organic livestock protein supplements
Integrating poultry and sheep on vegetable cropping land for increased economic return and enhanced fertility
Grant Recipient: Peter Lowy, Pete and Jen's Backyard Birds, Concord MA
Grant ID Number: FNE08-642
Food-grade mineral oil and thymol fog application as a natural alternative to treating honeybee mites
Grant Recipient: Heather Kyser, Bee-mus Honey, Bemus Point NY
Grant ID Number: FNE08-641
Tobacco treatment for Varroa mites on honeybees
Control of grape root borer
Using high tunnels to produce blackberries organically in West Virginia
Perimeter and internal trap cropping in organic winter squash
Grant Recipient: Nancy Hanson, Hampshire College Farm Center, Amherst MA
Grant ID Number: FNE08-637
Grafting tomatoes in multi-bay high tunnels as a way to overcome soil-borne diseases
Expanded use of minimal-till techniques in organic crop production
Grant Recipient: Edwin Fry, Fair Hill Farm, Chestertown MD
Grant ID Number: FNE08-635
Rotational grazing as a tool for Christmas tree producers
Evaluating small grains with silage corn in a double-cropping system on dairy farms
Investigation of increased productivity of a hoop house through better use of space
Testing two selection assays' efficacy for Varroa-mite-tolerant bee production
Increasing profitability: Building consumer preference for chevon through education and outreach
Grant Recipient: Jeanne Dietz-Band, Many Rocks Farm, Keedysville MD
Grant ID Number: FNE08-630
The financial viability of a dual-purpose heritage breed chicken for broiler and egg production
Grant Recipient: Julia Cronin, Cedar Meadow Farm, LLC, Ledyard CT
Grant ID Number: FNE08-629
Interseeding legume and grain crops with high-oil-content sunflowers
Production and nutrition of no-till drilling
Honeybees: To overwinter or not
Evaluation of southern peas as cash cover crop in Pennsylvania
Grant Recipient: Michael Byers, Demeter's Garden, Spring Mills PA
Grant ID Number: FNE08-625
Introducing rice as a commercial crop to the northeastern U.S.
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