YORK, Pa. — The Horn Farm Center will celebrate the opening of its new greenhouse with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 10 a.m. Saturday, May 25. Its incubator farmers’ farm stand also will open for the season 10 a.m.-1 p.m. The 24-by-72-foot greenhouse was built by Horn Farm Center volunteers on th ...
Photo by Stan Hall Elmer Z. Martin of Ephrata Township, Lancaster County, Pa., may have turned his excavating company over to his son, but he’s be ...
USDA researchers in Bushland, Texas, are helping farmers make the most of their water supplies in a region where they depend on the Ogallala Aquifer ...
WASHINGTON — U.S. Agriculture Secret ary Tom Vilsack on Tuesday discussed his vision for U.S. organic agriculture and USDA’s efforts to ensure its c ...
To Monitor Barley, Wheat, Corn for Freeze Damage Monday night’s widespread frost could cause injury to wheat and barley. Extension grain speciali ...
PHILADELPHIA — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on May 9 approved Pennsylvania’s 2012 final list of impaired waters. The list is part of a ...
On June 11, 12 and 13, Oregon Dairy will once again celebrate Family Farm Days — an educational, firsthand experience at a working farm, 10 a.m.-7 p ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania House of Representatives on Wednesday unanimously approved a resolution by Rep. Mindy Fee, R-Manheim, to designat ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Center for Dairy Excellence has partnered with the Pennsylvania Dairy Promotion Program and the Mid-Atlantic Dairy Association ...
WASHINGTON — The USDA reminded farmers on Tuesday that it will conduct a four-week Conservation Reserve Program general sign-up beginning May 20 and ...
WASHINGTON — The May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates report released May 10 by the USDA shows that a record corn crop is still reacha ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts Inc. has released “Conservation Districts Sustain Agriculture: A Farmer’s S ...
Pork and poultry production should expand in 2014 while beef supplies will decline further in the coming months and years. According to the latest ...
What Is Your Fair Share? Background Scripture: 1 Peter 4:1-11. Devotional Reading: Galatians 5:13-26. The world that the writer of 1 Peter live ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A Web-based Penn State Extension course designed to help beginning and experienced beekeepers has been recognized for online ...
MILLHEIM, Pa. — The Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, or PASA, is teaming up with the Pennsylvania Women’s Agricultural Network ...
Mid-Atlantic crop producers will be traveling through the nation’s heartland, July 22-28, on an intensive crop and equipment tour featuring the high ...
Precision agriculture promises to make farming more efficient and should have an important impact on the serious issue of food security, according t ...
I believe farming should be treated as a business and business-based decisions equal solid farm decisions. Recently while paging through the Spring ...
WASHINGTON — Securing adequate land to grow crops and raise livestock was the top challenge identified in the latest survey of participants in the A ...
Pest pressure in fields with blends of varieties, slug pressure in barley and current best practices will be discussed in a Winter Wheat Walk 10-11: ...
Penn State Extension and Cover Crop Solutions LLC will hold a field tour 10 a.m.-noon Wednesday, May 22, on the Steve Groff Farm, 535 Drytown Road, ...
LANCASTER, Pa. — A Millersville, Pa., man was killed May 3 after he was run over by a tractor in East Hempfield Township, Lancaster County. Ralph C ...
Supplied photo The shearing crew at George Weary’s farm in Scenery, Pa., pose with the last of 384 sheep they sheared over the course of 10 1/2 ho ...
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Changing the way a plant forms cellulose may lead to more efficient, less expensive biofuel production, according to Penn Sta ...
Scientists at the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service recently developed a simple, Web-based tool that helps producers easily understand t ...
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