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  • 2 weeks ago | lancasterfarming.com | Matt Enright

    MANHEIM, Pa. — Pennsylvania ranks fourth in the nation for wine production, an accomplishment the industry will celebrate with funds from the state’s Agricultural Promotion Grants. “You look around these well-kept vineyards and this is about hard work, this is about hope every season,” state Ag Secretary Russell Redding said June 11 at Waltz Vineyards.

  • 2 weeks ago | lancasterfarming.com | Matt Enright

    New York state Sen. Daniel Stec didn’t mince words about a colleague’s recent proposal to ban large dairy farms in the state. “It might be the dumbest agricultural bill I’ve seen in 13 years,” he said. Stec, R-Clinton, is the ranking Republican for the Senate Environmental Conservation Committee.

  • 3 weeks ago | lancasterfarming.com | Matt Enright

    Want to show a Holstein but don’t have the farm or capacity to raise them? Holstein Association USA can help you out. The dairy cattle organization that serves registered Holstein breeders and dairy farmers also provides a junior leasing program. The program allows youths to be involved in showing Holsteins at the organization’s seven national shows each year.

  • 1 month ago | lancasterfarming.com | Matt Enright

    Severe weather alerts can save a lot of lives if the information reaches those who need it. Warning the Amish has been a challenge for the National Weather Service. That difficulty was magnified five years ago when a flood in Kentucky killed several children. Jonathan Guseman, a warning coordination meteorologist for NWS in State College, Pennsylvania, was working in Jackson when that Kentucky tragedy struck, prompting him to regroup.

  • 1 month ago | lancasterfarming.com | Matt Enright

    An Oklahoma program that promotes food as medicine has been beneficial for both consumers and farmers, organizers said recently. Fresh RX Oklahoma was featured in a Farm Foundation webinar May 13 titled “The Healing Plate: Food, Health and Agricultural Innovation.”Fresh RX founder Erin Martin said in the webinar that farmers are vital to the success of the program, which provides local produce to people with diabetes to help them manage the disease and, in some cases, reverse it.

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