agriculture

UNIVERSITY PARK — The novel coronavirus pandemic will not stop Penn State’s 2020 Ag Progress Days — scheduled for Aug. 9-12 — from providing education...

Pennsylvania might have been made famous by coal and oil, iron and steel, but the industry that actually built the state was agriculture. Rolling hill...

HARRISBURG — The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection announced the availability of $1 million in grant funding to Pennsylvania small b...

Blueberries are in season, and locals have several places where they can take part in the summer ritual of picking the fruit right off the bush. Red, ...

OLEAN, N.Y. — A group of Olean residents are enjoying the “fruits of their labor” this summer as they work in two community gardens sponsored by Healt...

MORE BEANS: Rocco Camas of Bradford shared some different reasons for why some people grow pole beans. Rocco explained the old Italians would grow a s...

POLE BEANS: After reading our columns on beans last week, Bob Rusiewski added his two cents on why he prefers growing pole beans. “If you are older, p...

HOWARD — On Thursday, U.S. Reps. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., Collin Peterson, D-Minn., and James Comer, R-Ky., sent a letter to Federal Communications Comm...

GROWING BEANS, PART 2: Beans benefit from soil that has been mixed with a bit of compost. After planting, mulch the ground surface to preserve soil mo...

GROWING STRING BEANS: For a beginning vegetable gardener, snap beans, aka string beans (Phaseolus vulgaris), can be one of the most rewarding vegetabl...

CAMP HILL — Farm markets in some regions of Pennsylvania will have locally grown sweet corn available for the July 4th holiday, while harvest will be ...

ST. MARYS — The Harrison and Muriel Dauer Stackpole Family Fund, a donor-advised fund at the Elk County Community Foundation, recently made a grant aw...

FIREFLY FESTIVAL: The FREE Virtual Stay-At-Home PA Firefly Festival will take place online today. Starting at 6 p.m., go to pafireflyevents.org , or t...

Back in the 1960s, every boy in our neighborhood liked to play baseball. If he had a wooden bat, an old glove, and a ball held together with electrica...

SMETHPORT — The McKean County Conservation District is beginning a new treatment program for landowners with specific invasive plant populations. Citi...

HARRISBURG — Gov. Tom Wolf announced on Tuesday the availability of $40 million in funding through the federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic S...

HOWARD — On Thursday, Rep. Glenn Thompson, R-Pa., joined three other congressmen to introduce bipartisan legislation to expand access to Paycheck Prot...

Late spring and early summer provides the backdrop for food plot and tree maintenance. In many cases, annual wildlife food plots become the center of ...

UNIVERSITY PARK — After a severe drought gripped the Prairie Pothole Region of the U.S. and Canada in the 1980s, populations of almost all dabbling du...

SMETHPORT — Education is a strong priority for the McKean County Conservation District. Programs, outreach events, and technical assistance provide ci...