UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Agricultural community members are from diverse backgrounds, with an increasing number being Latino/a. The Latinx Agricultural Network (LAN) is a Penn State College of Agriculture Community of Practice established to address this need, and at the beginning of the pandemic it established a Facebook page in Spanish, found here (Penn State Extension Agricultura en Español | Facebook).
The Agricultura en Español Facebook page directs Latinx stakeholders to innovative, knowledge-based resources in Spanish that can be easily accessed and shared.
Educational formats include interactive webinars, self-paced online courses, highly visual “Learn Now” videos, and seasonal updates and extension articles. Highlights include the following:
– Applied dairy management webinars in Spanish.
– Vegetable and small-fruit articles that share on-farm tour experiences along with production technologies such as high tunnels.
– Timely tree-fruit news releases and self-paced training resources for orchard employees and new growers.
– Timely field and forage crop recommendations and sentinel plot reports.
– Produce-safety education manuals, videos, and other training resources that farmers can use to train small groups of employees.
– A multi-team series of farm-to-consumer food system articles to protect agricultural business and employee health.
You will find additional information on the Latinx Agricultural Network, along with links to Extension resources in Spanish, at the LAN webpage (Latinx Agricultural Network — Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences (psu.edu)).
–Penn State Extension