http://agmap.psu.edu A grouping of news items from across the state of Pennsylvania dealing with Pennsylvania's Agriculture Industry. en AgMapSupport@ag.psu.edu AgMapSupport@ag.psu.edu http://agmap.psu.edu/skin/images/agmapLogo_small.gif http://agmap.psu.edu 60 Wed, 16 May 2012 05:13:37 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNFOp5t7NjTO0tNtsh1YH6l06bkkww&url=http://herald-review.com/news/local/agriculture-safety-day-demonstrates-to-students-the-need-to-be/article_9905b440-9f12-11e1-bf8d-001a4bcf887a.html agriculture - Google News The tractor safety demonstration was one of eight presentations Piatt County fourth-graders experienced as part of a Progressive Agriculture Safety Day at 4-H Memorial Camp in Monticello. About 190 students from Bement, Washington in Monticello and ... Tue, 15 May 2012 00:31:39 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A2KJ3CdwJLJPOUQAQmr_wgt./SIG=11s0c9tih/EXP=1337103600/**http%3a//thedailyreview.com/news/1.1315181 pennsylvania agriculture - Yahoo! News Search Resu Pennsylvania Fairs Guides now available, says Pickett Rep. Tina Pickett (R-Bradford/Sullivan/Susquehanna) is encouraging residents to obtain a free copy of the 2012 Pennsylvania Fair Guide, which is now available at her district offices in Sayre and Towa Mon, 14 May 2012 20:44:06 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNEr2nBbhV-y7nJQmSm8n9_Z11hN0g&url=http://live.psu.edu/story/59720 agriculture - Google News US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will visit Penn State on Wednesday, May 16, to deliver an address commemorating the 150th anniversary of the US Department of Agriculture and highlighting the groundbreaking research and innovation that takes place ... Mon, 14 May 2012 19:28:34 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE4DNmjRzh8njMfK0J9bNiND6tnDw&url=http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/the-war-between-organic-and-conventional-farming-misses-the-point/257140/ agriculture - Google News By Ari LeVaux On April 23, the science journal Nature published a paper titled "Comparing the yields of organic and conventional agriculture ," by Verena Seufert et al. The mainstream press waded into the paper's implications but had a hard time ... Mon, 14 May 2012 11:12:31 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHHpN9WKrz2A0GmJeHaaesBHPN3Pw&url=http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2012/05/as_agriculture_booms_it_become.html agriculture - Google News By Syndicated columns By Robert J. Samuelson MARION, Iowa -- Sitting in the cab of a $350000 John Deere tractor pulling a $150000 Deere corn planter, Greg Carson embodies modern American agriculture . It's capital-intensive, high-tech, efficient -- and ... Mon, 14 May 2012 08:19:18 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHcvsmKZUd0_du88g841Nq1dvQCDw&url=http://www.mydesert.com/article/20120514/NEWS01/205140327/Farmland-use-key-experts-say-California-Women-Agriculture-forum- agriculture - Google News California Women for Agriculture board member Ellen Way and panelists Greg Braun, president of Border Valley Trading; Tom Freeman, commissioner of the Riverside County Economic Development Agency Office of Foreign Trade; Susan Day, vice president for ... Sun, 13 May 2012 08:34:20 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNE_II4TqmOubgnx051DHDq88SYaIw&url=http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20120513/ESN01/205130311 agriculture - Google News Virginia Secretary of Agriculture and Forestry Todd P. Haymore, left, was on hand to help with the unveiling along with Chatham owners Jon and Mills Wehner. / GLORIA BRADLEY/THE DAILY TIMES MACHIPONGO -- Highway signage installed at both ends of the ... Sat, 12 May 2012 14:43:54 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNHX5PoXuYaM4HGs8TpMD2FE6I3Ttg&url=http://www.cfnews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/bn9/2012/5/12/farmers_markets_gett.html agriculture - Google News US undersecretary of agriculture Kevin Concannon chats with a vendor at a North Carolina farmers market. The federal government is spending $4 million to make food markets more accessible to food stamp recipients. The federal government is spending $4 ... Mon, 07 May 2012 15:43:45 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A2KLOzLwCKhP.jkAksP_wgt./SIG=1269h9i1n/EXP=1336441200/**http%3a//wearecentralpa.com/fulltext%3fnxd_id=368512 pennsylvania agriculture - Yahoo! News Search Resu Affordable, family friendly travel destinations are featured in the 2012 Pennsylvania Fair Guide, now available in print or online. Mon, 07 May 2012 09:07:55 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A2KLOzFwmKdPslgADV7_wgt./SIG=13i41olsr/EXP=1336412400/**http%3a//buckslocalnews.com/articles/2012/05/07/bristol_pilot/news/doc4f121dc553240047338169.txt pennsylvania agriculture - Yahoo! News Search Resu BRISTOL - Certified organic vegetables, fruits, flowers, medicinal herbs and more fresh from Lancaster County will be available beginning this spring at the Silver Lake Nature Center in Bristol. Thu, 03 May 2012 07:33:51 EST http://agmap.psu.edu/redirect.cfm?url=http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&usg=AFQjCNECnmp-pOEVGdPfG-KZ0HRcYU1Umw&url=http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-mct-students-learn-importance-of-agriculture-20120503,0,6732980.story agriculture - Google News "The students are going through about 19 different stations, where they are learning about different topics related to agriculture . Stations included learning about goats, learning about economics, horses and many others," said Leanne Fuhrmann, ...