Videos

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

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

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

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

Farmer Emma Cunniff is busy on the farm this week, from fertilizing to tining, laying plastic mulch and planting. 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

Vera Martin has been collecting dolls for nearly 50 years. The Ephrata, Pa. native has filled her seven room phone with dolls including the basement and attic with the exception of the kitchen. Read more

This week Emma Cuniff at Keeehigh Farm shows how the seeds in the greenhouse have sprouted. And then she takes her tractor over to a neighboring farm for some routine maintenance. Read more