Chester County Ag Notes
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Chester County Ag Notes: It’s Corn Season!
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 as…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Our Farmers are Under Pressure to Satisfy FDA Requirements
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…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Our Equine Industry
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…
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Chester County Ag Notes: The Importance of Bee-ing
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,…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Milky Musings for National Dairy Month
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…
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Chester County Ag Notes: County and State Record Historical Soybean Crop
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…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Soil Conservation
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…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Farming Past and Future
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…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Farmers Markets & CSA’s
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…
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Chesco Ag Production, Talent on Display at PA Farm Show
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…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Christmas Traditions
It is Christmas and food plays an important role as families come together to celebrate this wonderful holiday and important Christian festival. Families often serve…
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Chester County Ag Notes: The World’s Mushroom Capital
By Duncan Allison Chester County’s reputation as The “Mushroom Capital of the World” came about in the 1890’s. Two Quaker greenhouse flower growers in Kennett…
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Chester County Ag Notes – Turkey Time!
By Duncan Allison Turkeys are closely associated with Thanksgiving and Christmas for good reason. Those early settlers in New England wanted something special to celebrate…
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Chester County Ag Notes – Mechanization Flips Farming
By Duncan Allison For several hundred years horses and horsepower enabled farmers to get more work done and farm more acres. However horses are relatively…
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