Philip Gruber
News Editor and Print Content Manager at Lancaster Farming
News manager at Lancaster Farming newspaper @LancFarming
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2 weeks ago |
lancasterfarming.com | Philip Gruber
In 2025, Lancaster Farming is celebrating 70 years of being the Farmer’s Choice. Although farming remains rooted in tradition, the American agricultural industry has undergone widespread changes in the seven decades since that first November 4, 1955, issue. This article is one in a series reflecting on many of those changes have shaped modern farming and continue to influence its future.
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3 weeks ago |
lancasterfarming.com | Philip Gruber
One of President Donald Trump’s most remarkable traits is his ability to politicize things that shouldn’t be political. His all-caps Memorial Day post on social media desecrated a solemn occasion with childish insults. kAmkDA2?mp8 $64C6E2CJ qC@@<6 #@==:?D 92D 8=667F==J 7@==@H65 %CF>A’D =625[ :7 ?@E D@ 4C2DD=J]k^DA2?mk^AmkAmkDA2?m$96 92D C6A62E65=J 3=2>65 !C6D:56?E y@6 q:56?’D 25>:?:DEC2E:@? 7@C 9:89 688 AC:46D 2?5 E2<6?
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3 weeks ago |
lancasterfarming.com | Philip Gruber
Uncertainty about federal funding is complicating Pennsylvania’s budget negotiations, a top ag lawmaker says. The state already faced big questions about funding transit and education. But with Washington in the midst of cutbacks, it’s hard to know how much federal support Pennsylvania can count on for agriculture and other programs, said Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, D-Luzerne, the chairman of the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee.
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3 weeks ago |
lancasterfarming.com | Philip Gruber
The Somerset County Star ran a front-page headline on March 2, 1905, proclaiming “Terrible Dropsy Cured.”The story, which was really an advertisement, declared that Dr. Franklin Miles’ Grand Dropsy Treatment “relieves short breath, smothering and distress the first day,” with a permanent cure coming in one or two months.
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3 weeks ago |
lancasterfarming.com | Philip Gruber
The Pennsylvania Milk Board will keep the state’s dairy premium unchanged through the end of this year. The board decided June 4 to keep the premium at $1 per hundredweight plus a fuel adjuster. The Pennsylvania State Grange and Farm Bureau requested the decision during a May 7 hearing. Board Chairman Rob Barley and consumer member Kristi Kassimer Harper voted to extend the premium, but member Jim Van Blarcom dissented.
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My longest story to date posted today. Developed over two years, it is the story of how more than 30 diseases shaped American history. https://t.co/dw9Xv9Ycy3
One takeaway from this story is that entertainment is a big money maker for fairs. https://t.co/DEDSIIQiTC
A major Southwestern egg producer is calling for American hens to be vaccinated after the company lost about 6 million birds to avian influenza. https://t.co/CBIcy4WxrN
