Watch the Bish Enterprises FiberCut 4-15 in action as it cuts through tall fiber hemp with 15 foot multi-height sickle bar mower blades. Read more
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Learn how Hess Brother's Fruit Company delivers fresh apples of multiple varieties, from producers to grocery stores. Read more
In the third and final video in this series, IND HEMP's chief strategy officer Trey Riddle concludes the tour of the fiber processing system inside the company's new processing plant in Fort Benton Montana. This video was shot on July 27, 2021, during Lancaster Farming's National Hemp Tour, … Read more
In the second of three videos, IND HEMP's chief strategy officer Trey Riddle gives a tour of the fiber processing system inside the company's new processing plant in Fort Benton Montana. This video was shot on July 27, 2021, during Lancaster Farming's National Hemp Tour, in which podcast hos… Read more
Andrew Bish from Bish Enterprises and Hemp Harvest Works gives a brief look at the new multi-height hemp harvester, which was on display at the 2021 Southern Hemp Expo in Raleigh, NC, September 2 - 4, 2021. Read more
Produce Auctions in Pennsylvania are a key part of agricultural sales. There are 16 produce markets throughout the state selling products from 5,000 farmers. If you are a first time buyer at a produce auction, it can be intimidating to say the least. “Just understanding the auctioneer can be… Read more
In the first of three videos, IND HEMP's chief strategy officer Trey Riddle gives a tour of the fiber processing system inside the company's new processing plant in Fort Benton Montana. This video was shot on July 27, 2021, during Lancaster Farming's National Hemp Tour, in which podcast host… Read more
Jim Ladlee, assistant director of energy, business and community vitality programs at Penn State Extension, demonstrates an augmented reality headset. Unlike virtual reality, which immerses the viewer in a digital world, augmented reality superimposes a hologram on one’s view of the real wor… Read more
Watch a skid steer make it through the obstacle course at Empire Farm Days. Read more
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Sharon Nolan was born and raised on a Cochranville, Pa., dairy farm and her entire life has been about the dairy business. She has done everything from owning milking herds to raising and showing prize-winning calves, heifers and cows. She has also mentored many youth in the Chester Country … Read more
The zenith of our National Hemp Tour was an event held July 27. Hemp industry folks from all over the country descended on the town for an all-day summit and working session, hosted by IND HEMP at the Fort Benton Agricultural Museum. Sort of like fish in a barrel, all of these hemp industry … Read more
This week, farmer Emma de Long discusses preparing Kneehigh Farm's fall planting, including cauliflower, broccoli, lettuces and radicchio. The farm has been busy fertilizing the vegetable beds and de Long plans to use a Williams tine weeder before finishing with a water wheel transplanter. Read more
Eric makes the drive to Monte Vista in southern Colorado, in the San Luis Valley, to meet the folks from Formation Ag, a company that’s been building hemp harvesters and decorticators since 2015. Corbett Heffner gives a demonstration of the decorticator. Seeing this machine in operation, you… Read more
Charlie Hoober drives Red Fever, an International Harvester 1066, in an exhibition pull July 24 at Buck Motorsports Park. Hoober, of Paradise, entered Red Fever in tractor pulls at local fairs from 1972 to 1974 as a way to promote his family’s farm equipment business, Intercourse-based Hoobe… Read more
On this episode, Eric Hurlock talks with the South Bend Industrial Hemp team about their industrial hemp operation in South Bend, Kansas, which includes an onsite hemp fiber decorticator. The team then goes on to explain how they fit hemp into their cash crop rotation and remind interested f… Read more
Katie Byler has turned a love of flowers into a second career. She started a flower business with her mom and sisters that provides a wide variety of cut flowers, both annuals and perennials, to florists and event designers in southeastern Pennsylvania. The one-acre flower farm, called Greys… Read more
Eric Hurlock's second stop on the road was Murray State University's Center for Agricultural Hemp in Murray, Kentucky where he met up with Dr. Tony Brannon from Murray State University and Tommy Copeland, operations manager at HempWood. The center has been comparing varieties of agricultural… Read more
At one stop along the National Hemp Tour, Eric Hurlock talked to HempWood founder and CEO Greg Wilson at his facility in Murray, Kentucky. HempWood make a wood substitute from hemp fiber. Wilson discusses the differences between growing industrial hemp and cannabis and what farmers can expec… Read more
The Sensenig family has run a feed mill in Lancaster County since 1945. The operation moved to its current site — a nearly 150-year old mill in New Holland — in 1985, and is under the direction of Mike Sensenig working with his fourth generation sons, Kyle and Kurt. Sensenig’s services nearl… Read more
Meet Eric Weaver, a dairy farmer who’s YouTube channel, ‘10th Generation Dairyman,’ has over 100,000 subscribers. Read more
Homemade root beer is really something special in farm country. There’s nothing like a cold bottle of the fizzy, dark liquid that isn’t too sweet, but quenches your thirst on a hot summer day. You can sample cold, homemade root beer at small roadside stands at Plain Community farms along man… Read more
Clair Kauffman spends lots of time cultivating some 35,000 trees and harvesting cherries, peaches, plums, pears and apples on the 100 acres Kauffman Fruit Farm in Ronks, Pa. But to assure quality fruit each growing season, he also spends a lot of time in an on-going battle with voles, mice a… Read more
Eric Hurlock's first stop of the Hemp Tour is a send off event at Penn State's Southeast Agriculture Research facility. Some of the speakers at the event included Pennsylvania Ag Secretary Russell Redding, and representatives from National Hemp Association, and New Holland Agriculture. Read more
This week, farmer Emma de Long discusses harvesting garlic through trial and error at Kneehigh Farm. Read more
Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding helped kick off Lancaster Farming’s National Hemp Tour with a hemp tea toast featuring hemp tea from Wild Fox Farm. Read more
Pet of the Week is Gordon, a 6-year-old friendly pit bull who can be adopted from the Humane League of Lancaster County, located at 2195 Lincoln Hwy. East, Lancaster. Read more
Lancaster Farming's regional editor Stephanie Speicher demonstrates how to make Oreo cheesecake bars using a recipe from one of our readers. You can find the full recipe by clicking here. Read more
In Episode 4 we take you out to the field and behind the scenes to learn with our growers and community about hemp fiber variety trials in Montana and get an inside look at the IND HEMP fiber decortication and processing facility. We meet in the field with a number of #indhempgrowers, potent… Read more
Lancaster Farming’s National Hemp Tour officially kicked off at Penn State’s Southeast Agricultural Research and Extension Center on June 28. The event featured a panel of speakers, including Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding, who discussed the future of industrial hemp. Read more
Lancaster Farming's regional editor Stephanie Speicher demonstrates how to make Italian beef melts using a recipe from one of our readers. You can find the full recipe by clicking here. Read more
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Meet Jason and Justin Keller of Fleetwood, Pa., a father and son tractor pulling team. The duo shares that their farm hosts a variety of International Harvester brand tractors, but they like to pull out the models 1086 and the 1066 for tractor pulls. This was the first time that Justin pulle… Read more
Doug Boop, owner of Heart and Soul Holsteins in Millmont,PA, talks about his dairy setup and the benefits of hosting a tour at his farm during the 2021 National Holstein Convention. Read more
This week, farmer Emma de Long discusses cover cropping at Kneehigh Farm. Read more
Dairy farmers from all across the U.S. are gathering in Lancaster, Pa. this week for the 2021 National Holstein Convention. Learn more about some of the dairy farmers and why they attended the convention here in this video! Read more
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Casey Kaufhold remembers beating her father during an archery shoot when she was 12 years old. Now, five years later, she's heading to Tokyo to represent the USA in the Summer Olympics. Find out what's on her belt, her favorite songs and what an 'average' day looks like for this East Lampete… Read more
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
Episode 3 of the Goodness of Hemp™ Industrial hemp show introduces us to IND HEMP lead Agronomist Ben Brimlow as we travel north to join the Montana Organic Association at Vilicus Farms. Far in the North, above the 'Highline' - Route 2 - that runs east to west across northern Montana and tuc… 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
3,500 roses are in full bloom at Hershey Gardens. 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
