The state’s trout growers were quite busy in 2021, producing trout valued at $20.7 million.

Pennsylvania is looking to expand sales of agricultural products in the state and beyond. 

The Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Bureau of Food Safety and Laboratory Services received a national honor for its food safety programs this year. 

Pennsylvania protected 32 farms in 18 counties, investing nearly $8.2 million in state, county and local dollars.  The state Department of Agriculture said 2,264 acres have been protected from future development.  This brings Pennsylvania’s total to 6,076 farms and 613,884 acres in 58 counties, now forever protected from commercial, industrial or residential development. Pennsylvania continues ...

Fishtown Pickle Project and New Tripoli’s Eight Oaks Farms Distillery have collaborated on two new pickle-centric products just in time for summer. 

Bowery Farming officially opened Thursday with tours for local and state dignitaries and community members to show how vertical farming can feed close to 50 million people in a 200-mile radius of the facility at 1925 Feather Way in the Lehigh Valley Industrial Park VII. 

The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding businesses in Pennsylvania that affected by the remnants of Hurricane Ida from Aug. 31 to Sept. 5 of last year to apply for working capital loans before the June 10 deadline.

The Rodale Institute, Berks County, is one of 23 projects across the state to receive a federal grant intended to grow markets and increase the quality, safety and sustainability of the state’s specialty crops. 

Pennsylvania farms produced $600 million in revenue in 2020, making the state second in the nation for direct food sales, according to the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. 

The state Department of Agriculture is looking for research proposals on sustaining and growing Pennsylvania’s $132.5 billion agriculture industry.