Agricultural Business Development Center
Designed to enhance the long-term vitality of Pennsylvania farms, the ABDC is focused on providing support for sound business planning, efficient transitions of farm ownership, strategic farm expansion, diversification of agricultural production, and in building a team of financial and technical expertise as a resource for Pennsylvania farmers.
Agricultural Business Development Center
Agricultural Marketing
The Agricultural Commodity Marketing Division is responsible for the domestic and worldwide promotion/marketing of Pennsylvania agribusiness products and services, and developing and administering programs to assist agribusinesses in locating and/or expanding within the Commonwealth.
Agricultural Marketing
Agricultural Trade
The Agricultural Trade program is focused on helping Pennsylvania's food producers and processors begin to export their products or take their international sales to the next level.
Agricultural Trade
Beginning Farmers
This new program allows the seller or lessor of agricultural land, equipment, buildings and livestock to a qualified “beginning farmer” to apply for and receive tax credits against the seller or lessor’s Pennsylvania income tax obligations in the year of the sale or lease.
Beginning Farmers
Financial Assistance
Looking for lending assistance for your agricultural operation? Explore federal and state programs for land, machinery, and refinancing purposes.
Financial Assistance
Risk Management
Risk management involves choosing among alternatives that reduce the effects that can result from such uncertainties and by having appropriate crop insurance, the types of which vary by crop and county due to the differences in each crop.
Risk Management