Duncan Allison
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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: Labor Shortage Threatens Chester County’s Mushrooms
By Duncan Allison, Mushrooms have been an important agricultural industry in Chester County for over 100 years. Proximity to large urban populations, availability of raw…
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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 20-Year Origins of the Chester County Food Bank’s Gleaning Program
Many of us feel the responsibility to look after the poor and those in need among us. In 1996, Senator (then Commissioner) Dinniman was called…
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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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Look to the 2016 Farm Produce Guide For Fresh Chester County Food Sources
By Duncan Allison Agriculture has shaped our countryside and played an important role in Chester County since Colonial Days when this region was considered the…
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County Ag Notes: Farmers in Four Chester County Townships Grow 10% of State’s Tobacco Crop
By Allison Duncan Tobacco has been grown since Colonial times in Pennsylvania but the production of burley tobacco was not permitted during the 1938-2004 period…
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Chester County Ag Notes: 4H: Head, Heart, Hands, and Health
By Duncan Allison Lindsey will be entering college this term with so much more confidence after moving through several 4-H programs and becoming an assistant.”…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Corn Yields Sextuple in 80 Years
Spring is the time for planting corn so farmers are hoping that dry weather will enable them to plant the 93.6 million acres that are…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Food Safety
By Duncan Allison The safety of our food supply is a very basic and understandable concern. Unfortunately it is easy to be confused since there…
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Dairy Farming in Chester County: Fewer Farms, More Cows
By Duncan Allison Dairy farming and dairy products have long been associated with Chester County since there was strong demand from Philadelphia and the expanding…
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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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Chester County Ag Notes: Pennsylvania Farm Show
By Duncan Allison Go to the Pennsylvania Farm Show in the middle of the winter? No way, but the Pennsylvania Farm Show is always held…
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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: Humble Hay Crop Drives County’s Ag Economy
By Duncan Allison For centuries farmers have relied on their hay crop to sustain their livestock during the winter months. Cattle, horses, sheep and goats…
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Chester County Ag Notes: Christmas Tree Farms
Each year it has become a tradition for families to visit one of the many local Christmas tree farms in Chester County to select their…
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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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