Posted: December 10, 2025
This new spring course is offered to students across majors and focuses on practical on-the-farm solutions for common environmental concerns.
Students interested in practical on-the-farm solutions for common environmental concerns can still sign up for a new course - ABSM 497: Conservation Management - which is being offered from 12:20-1:10 p.m. Mondays and Fridays, with a lab from 10:10-11:00 a.m. Wednesdays during the spring semester.
This course is designed to be interdisciplinary, for students across majors, with topics related to non-structural conservation practices, otherwise known as best management practices (BMPs). Some of these topics include:
- rotational grazing systems
- no/reduced till
- crop rotation
- diversions
- terraces
- waterway
- silvopasture
- cover crop
- strip-cropping
- and many more
Students must have taken PHYS 250 or 211 and MATH 110 or 140 as prerequisites.
Dr. Weiyun Hua (wvh5223@psu.edu) is instructing the course and plans on involving guest speakers and field trips to make the learning experience engaging. If you have any questions about the course, please contact Erin Trouba at ect5075@psu.edu.
