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This study enables cider makers to identify areas for potential cost savings to allow their businesses to operate with greater profit margins and to further understand the current state of the cider production marketplace.

Hard cider production is increasingly becoming an economically attractive value-added product in the apple industry.

These tools are designed as educational resources to aid in decision making regarding the establishment of your cider variety orchard.

Exploring the potential for using Mid-Atlantic processing apple varieties in hard cider production.

A summary of alcoholic beverage statistics and trends from resources published at the end of 2022/beginning of 2023.

Before planting your first fruit tree, you should conduct your own research regarding production, marketing, and financing the enterprise.

A value ladder is a marketing tool that allows businesses to gradually increase the value they offer to their customers over time.

Commonly asked home owner food safety questions.

Cider is as diverse as wine or beer. Discover the different styles and nuances of cider and its apples to determine what pairs with your tastes and plates best.

Join us to learn about how to ramp up online cider sales quickly and efficiently for sustained business.

Make quick reasonable changes to your labels without applying for a new Certificate of Label Approval or COLA.

The wellness industry, currently valued at a booming 4 trillion dollars, is beginning to pour product options into the craft beverage market.

Get the most up-to-date information on growing tree fruit on a commercial scale. Revised information and a refreshed look for 2024.

Craft beverage is uniquely positioned to bring producers and communities together.

Relishes are a delicious combination of chopped vegetables and/or fruits cooked in vinegar with spices added for flavor.

Gray mold, Botrytis cinerea, is the most important postharvest disease of pears and is second to blue mold in importance to apple.

Holidays can be stressful times where our healthy routines are thrown off-track. This article provides helpful tips on how to honor your own wellness needs during the season.

Penn State Extension conducted research in 2017 to assess current and future production levels and supply chain actors and identify future potential for local and regional sourcing of ingredients

The Pennsylvania Craft Brewer Survey brings insight to agricultural producers on growing the amount of 'local' in Pennsylvania craft beer.

Master Gardeners often field questions about indoor, as well as outdoor pests. Here are descriptions of insects and insect-like pests that can invade the home and what it do about them.

Sometimes I feel as though value-added is promoted as a certain road to success. To maintain and grow an economically viable business we would expect profitability. Value-added is not a risk-free path to achieving profits.

As we look forward to the summer, now is an excellent time to prepare for a successful season of preserving pickles.

If you plan on direct marketing of your farm products, marketing research plays a crucial role in the development of a marketing strategy and plan.

Disease resistant cultivars were developed primarily for resistance to apple scab, but some are also resistant to cedar apple rust, powdery mildew, and fire blight.

Learn the proper techniques for canning, drying and freezing squash and pumpkin.

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