LANCASTER, Pa. — When students Shyanne Murray and Brandon Scheid decided to go to their high school prom together, Brandon was working on restoring a John Deere H tractor. Both of the Penn Manor High School students are involved in agriculture and love John Deere, and thought it would be a g ...
PINE GROVE, Pa. — Madeline Daubert, the 19-year-old daughter of Ronald Ray and Melanie Daubert, Pine Grove, Pa., was crowned as the 2013-2014 ...
YORK, Pa. — The new York County dairy royalty was recently selected at a dairy pageant held on May 4 at the New Covenant Community Church in Yor ...
LANCASTER, Pa. — Patty Dunn and other members of the Penn State Animal Diagnostic Laboratory have been busy this past year following what is h ...
Market at a Glance
Lancaster County Livestock Auction Averages
Prices Per Hundredweight
May 17, 2013
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BELLEFONTE/DOVER, Del. — “We just want fresh, local produce,” said Stu Evans, one of four people starting a new farmers market in ...
I t’s been more than six years since I joined Lancaster Farming.
A lot has changed since then. A new editor, two new regional editions, diff ...
Damage May Take Time to Show Up
LANCASTER, Pa. — An unusual, late-season frost appears to have damaged some produce and crops Tuesday mornin ...
LANCASTER, Pa. — Farmers, by tradition, are an independent lot. It’s a given that if you put 10 of them in a room, you’ll get 10 d ...
MOUNT PLEASANT MILLS, Pa. — Walk into a veal barn today, and it will look nothing like it would have a decade ago.
Veal farmers have been re ...
LANCASTER, Pa. — Jamie Jarrett said she gets excited when folks talk phosphorus.
Jarrett a native of Bakersfield, Calif., has a doctorate in ...
MOHRSVILLE, Pa. — As fifth-generation farmers, Kelly, 27, and Will Smith, 35, of Centre Township, Berks County, Pa., spend their busy days tak ...
GETTYSGURG, Pa. — Each spring, members of the Gettysburg 4-H Sheep Club’s Market Lamb Project purchase lambs with the intent of selling ...
Tranovich Crowned Dairy Princess in Wyoming-Lackawanna Counties
TUNKHANNOCK, Pa. — On Saturday, May 14, Brianna Smarkusky of Nicho ...
NEW WILMINGTON, Pa. — It isn’t often that you see Tim Elder at a meeting where he doesn’t have with him a florescent pink grazing ...
Market at a Glance
Lancaster County Livestock Auction Averages
Prices Per Hundredweight
May 10, 2013
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EPHRATA, Pa. — Each year, Lancaster Farming sponsors a dairy recipe drawing in honor of June Dairy Month. Readers are invited to enter the dra ...
A mom’s work is never done. Growing up, I was always impressed by the farm moms I knew, including my own mother and grandmothers. Somehow, the ...
SOUDERTON, Pa. — Bruce Sensenig said the efficiency of a processing plant, which handles his beef cattle, impressed him.
Sensenig, of North ...
Monsanto Hopes to Match Seed to Field Types
Technology isn’t new to Elizabethtown farmer Jim Hershey.
He’s invested thousands of dol ...
IRWIN, Pa. — Although the Logan family has been farming the same piece of ground for well over 100 years, things have changed a lot in that ti ...
LANCASTER, Pa. — Cherry Hill Orchards has seen its share of changes over the years.
What started as a small orchard now includes a well-kno ...
DANVILLE, Pa. — Marie Minnich is a fiber artist at heart. Since she was a young girl, she’s always been drawn to fiber art. Marushka Far ...
BIGLERVILLE, Pa. — The 60th Pennsylvania apple queen, Kristi Kraft, was crowned Sunday at the Apple Blossom Festival at South Mountain Fairgro ...
Charlene M. <\n>Shupp Espenshade
When Scott George was elected president of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association in February, ...
There are big historic things, like steam locomotives, dinosaur bones, the pyramids and Old Ironsides. And there are little historic things, like be ...