Corn is easy to recognize as you drive around the countryside. We don’t live in Oklahoma but we can still sing “the corn is…

Food safety is a huge concern to all of us from farm producer to ultimate food consumer. According to the Centers for Disease Control and…

Drive anywhere in Chester County and you will see horses grazing in pastures. It is widely acknowledged that the equine industry plays a major role…

We think of bees mostly in relation to honey but honey bees play a critical role in the pollination of many of our favorite fruit…

Surely one of the pleasures of summer is enjoying a cool drink of milk at home or an ice cream at the shore. Perhaps that…

Duncan Allison

If you lived in the rural Midwest you would be very familiar with soybeans but results from a recent survey in Chester County…

History has demonstrated that civilizations can fail if farmland is not maintained. We have our own examples of significant areas being devastated by lack of…

By Duncan Allison

Plant and livestock breeding can be considered the main reason why the human race has been able to increase from a few…

By Duncan Allison

Farmers in Chester County have been reacting in several different ways to the increasing interest in locally produced food. The 12 farmers…

By Duncan Allison

It is difficult even to begin to describe the huge range of stands, cooking demonstrations, arenas constantly in use for auctions, cattle…