A brand new museum for muscle cars of the 1950s through 1970s, Barry’s Car Barn in Intercourse, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, an eye-popping selection of 50 vehicles and 10 motorcycles — the personal collection of Lancaster County native, businessman and entrepreneur Barry Baldwin. Watch t… Read more
The Lebanon Auto Auction has been selling both dealer trade-in and personal vehicles for two decades. For the past four years the auction has been owned by Jimmy Kreider and his father-in-law, Lynn Ebersole. They auction about 100 vehicles each week in a low-key sale on Thursday evenings, an… Read more
Eric Hurlock will hit the road in just about two weeks for Lancaster Farming’s first-ever cross-country tour of hemp farms and industry events. Read more
Erik Maselkevich of the Milkhouse Creamery in Luzerne County shows how a 1950s Federal bottle filler works and why his business refurbished several pieces of vintage dairy equipment to use in the processing operation. Read more
What started as a one-year opportunity by New Holland’s Sensenig Feed Mill owners to provide milk to the local community during the middle of the COVID pandemic in early spring 2020 was expanded in 2021 and is on its well on its way to being a yearly community event explains organizer Mike S… Read more
Lancaster Farming's regional editor Stephanie Speicher demonstrates how to make creamy ranch chicken using a recipe from one of our readers. You can find the full recipe by clicking here. Read more
The 2021 strawberry season in Southeast Pennsylvania could be a record one for many produce farmers as the weather has led to farm operations picking record numbers of flats for regular and new customers. In Pennsylvania, many farm families have always made jam. They are now being joined by … Read more
For a century, the Lancaster (Pa.) stockyards rerouted livestock from the Midwest to east coast cities. It was the largest stockyard east of Chicago and operated from 1895 to the end of the 20th century. With thousands of steer occupying a 25 acre site near the rail line through Lancaster, t… Read more
Lancaster Farming's regional editor Stephanie Speicher demonstrates how to make vanilla yogurt salad using a recipe from one of our readers. You can find the full recipe by clicking here. Read more
Join state royalty from across the US for a special milk toast that spreads from coast to coast, celebrating World Milk Day and the Start of June is Dairy Month. Read more
Frank Messersmith, his brother Earl and employee Martin Harvey milk 80 cows in a tie stall barn in southern Bradford County. The barn has undergone three additions over the years and measures 210 feet in length. Read more
Get to know a little more about some of our Lancaster Farming staff and what we love about dairy! Read more
This week, Emma de Long shares how Kneehigh Farm’s tomatoes and cover crops are coming along. Read more
Auctioneer Brian Oberholtzer recently won top awards at the bid-calling contest held by the Pennsylvania Auctioneers Association in mid-May. Oberholtzer has an even-pitched, clear chant with just the right cadence and not a lot of “mumbo-jumb” mixed in. He had previously won the 2016 Pennsyl… Read more
Cliff Orley is heavily involved in all things in the beef cattle show world. He custom fits and judges all kinds of beef breeds, and he raises and shows Simmental cattle. In this video, Orley, who has judged at the national level, talks about what he likes to see in a good show cow. Read more
As the heat kicks up this May, the tomatoes in the high tunnel at Kneehigh Farm are really starting to grow. The Kneehigh crew has already suckered them once, as farmer Emma de Long shows in this week's episode. She also demonstrates the trellising system for the tomatoes. Pulleys and cords … Read more
This week, farmer Emma de Long shows off Kneehigh Farm’s irrigation and watering systems. Read more
On May 17, 2021, Dr. Jewel Bronaugh was officially sworn in to serve as the Deputy Secretary of Agriculture at USDA. Dr. Bronaugh has a long, distinguished career as an educator and champion for farmers and rural communities, and is making history as the first Black woman and woman of color … Read more
Check out the big farm machines used in spring planting — or as some might call them, big toys for big boys! Read more
Kelly and Ryan meet one of the finalists in Live's Top Teacher Search, Krista Pontius from Millerstown, PA. Video courtesy of Live with Kelly and Ryan. Read more
An accurate weather forecast for farmers in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, as well as in all farm country in Pennsylvania, is critical to setting planting and harvesting schedules and has a major effect on a successful growing year. Meteorologist Eric Horst, a Lancaster native, and recently… Read more
This week, farmer Emma de Long shows how they trellis peas at Kneehigh Farm in Chester County. Read more
Well-known Lancaster County gardeners, 88-year-old twin sisters Verna and Viola Mueller give a tour of their garden. Read more
This week, farmer Emma shows how she utilized her Williams Tool Bar weeder in the fields at Kneehigh Farm. Read more
Lancaster Farming staff reporter Tom Venesky celebrates Beef Month with his family as they take us on a quick tour of their beef farm in northeast Pennsylvania. Read more
Lancaster Farming special sections editor Courtney Love gives us a tour of her family's beef farm in Berk's County, Pennsylvania, where they raise Simmental/Angus on their cow calf operation. Read more
On this week's episode, Emma demonstrates how to use a waterwheel planter to plant lettuce plugs in the field. Read more
Technology has come to farming in a variety of ways including self-contained, freight container vertical hydroponics operations whose growing capacity equals about 2 acres of outside space. Ideal for locales with short growing seasons, uncertain weather and bad soil, two units installed by t… Read more
Peach trees bloom at a farm on Cats Back Road in West Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pa. Fruit growers are cautiously optimistic that they will enjoy a full harvest this year, unlike 2020 when an April frost damaged peach, pear, apple and cherry blossoms. This spring's weather has been muc… Read more
For dairy farmer Stacy Copenhaver, giving tours of Talview Dairy lets her combine her two passions. She loves educating people and she loves agriculture, so getting to educate people about agriculture is a dream come true. Read more
Farmer Emma Cunniff is busy on the farm this week, from fertilizing to tining, laying plastic mulch and planting. Read more
In the fourth video of this series, we explain how to connect the water depth sensor to the transfer shuttle in the field , how to transfer the data to the computer, and how to take manual water level measurements in the field as an extra validation step. Read more
In the second video of this series, we explain how to use water depth sensors to measure flow rates in the field. The video covers how to connect the water depth sensor to the computer, using the software to launch the sensor, and placing the sensor in a control structure in the field. Read more
If you want to know how much nitrate your woodchip bioreactor is removing, you need to know how much nitrate is in the water entering and leaving the bioreactor. This video covers how to collect water samples in the field and proper protocol on sample labeling and storage. Read more
In this final video of the series, we bring all the effort in the field back to the lab to discuss how the water samples get processed and analyzed and how the nitrate concentrations from the water samples get paired with flow rates. Good luck making your own bioreactor monitoring magic! Read more
This video series is intended for conservation professionals and water sampling volunteers who are monitoring woodchip bioreactors to estimate how much nitrate has been removed from the tile drainage water. Watch the full five video series to learn the magic behind woodchip bioreactor water … Read more
Seven agriculture students at Manheim Central High School in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, have been preparing for their annual greenhouse sale under the direction of junior Anna Haldeman. This year, the sale is being held in the greenhouse on the high school grounds and will feature start… Read more
This week, farmer Emma Cunniff gets back into the fields to assess the soil conditions. Plus she demonstrates her Imantz spader in the field. Read more
This week, farmer Emma Cunniff offers step-by-step instructions for putting up a new high tunnel greenhouse at her farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Read more
Kevin and Dina Stoltzfus, owners of Warwick Manor Farm in East Earl, Pennsylvania, have welcomed some 20 calves to their Guernsey dairy herd through March 2021. About half the calves have been heifers and half bulls. "The bulls will be sold for beef production while the heifers will spend se… Read more
Craig Rice of Lakeside Greenhouses in Laurel, Delaware discusses his plans for 2021. Read more
Sharon Sheaffer has been styling food since graduating from Hood College in the 1960s when she started her career with General Foods (now part of the Kraft Foods Group). She says she has styled everything from “soup to nuts” including giant Jell-O molds for General Foods and turkeys for Camp… Read more
Jeff Hastings of Jeff’s Greenhouses in Bethel, Delaware discusses his plans for 2021. Read more
This week farmer Emma Cunniff at Kneehigh Farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania, shows the beginning stages of setting up a new greenhouse, plus she takes us on a tour of the prop house where she starts all of her seeds for the season. She offers solid advice on tractor maintenance and why it… Read more
Valery and Chris Cordrey of East Coast Garden Center, Millsboro, Del. discuss their business. Read more
Farmer Emma Cunniff is at Kneehigh Farm on the first day of spring. She's identified an issue with the clutch on her BCS two-wheeled tractor. And she talks about the plans for planting this spring, as well as the benefits of high tunnel growing. Read more
United States Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack invites everyone to celebrate National Ag Day in the United States and to recognize the value of our farmers, ranchers, and producers and those who work in labor in our farm fields. Read more
This week farmer Emma Cunniff is getting the tractor started, fixing the waterlines, cleaning out the shed, and generally getting ready for the season to ramp up. She also shows off her Williams tine weeder. Read more
March is in full swing and it's greenhouse month at Kneehigh Farm in South Coventry, Pennsylvania, where farmer Emma Cunniff pots up tomato seedlings to get ready for the season. She demonstrates how to prick apart the tiny tomato seedlings in order to transplant into larger cells. The toma… Read more
Beattie started his business, the Bait Bungalow, as part of a supervised agricultural experience, or SAE, during his sophomore year in high school and taught himself the lure-making techniques by watching videos online. Read more
