UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., May 27 -- Pennsylvania State University issued the following news release:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. - An interdisciplinary team in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, in collaboration with the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, a conservation nonprofit working with farmers, has received a $250,000 grant from the Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education program. The team will use the funding to study how conservation agriculture practices - efforts to minimize damage to soil health and the natural ecosystem - affect the well-being of dairy farm workers and farm families.
The project, "Examining the Impacts of Conservation Agriculture on Farm Workforce Well-Being," is led by Kathleen Sexsmith, assi...