Five Receive PVGA Scholarships

The Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association is pleased to be able to offer Rudolph Grob Memorial Scholarships each year to students pursuing higher education.  For 2022 five scholarships were given as follows:     J. Parker Milton  – University of...

2023 Mid-Atlantic Convention Attendance Up

Attendance at the 2023 Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention, by preliminary counts, exceeded the attendance at the 2022 Convention.  Total attendance is estimated at about 2,250. The 2022 attendance was only about 75% of the pre-pandemic 2020 attendance and the...

Kevin and Morgan Bond Receive PVGA Young Grower Award

The Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association is pleased to award its 2023 Young Grower Award to Kevin and Morgan Bond.  The Young Grower Award is given to recognize PVGA members who are 35 years old or younger, who have been successfully growing vegetables, potatoes...

PVGA and SHAP Recognize Secretary Redding

                    The Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association and the State Horticulture Association of Pennsylvania together recognized a special friend of Pennsylvania’s fruit and vegetable growers –...

Beth Gugino Receives 2023 PVGA Annual Award

Each year, the Association recognizes an individual who had demonstrated a noteworthy record of service and dedication to either the state’s vegetable, potato or berry growers and/or the Association over their career. It is the Association’s highest honor. The year’s...

Six PVGA Directors Elected, Officers Re-Elected

At the PVGA Annual Meeting on Wednesday, February 1, 2023, Past President Brian Campbell announced that Christopher Harner, Rita Resick, John Shenk, Jeffrey Stoltzfus, and Joel Weaver had been re-elected to three-year terms on the Board of Directors by the members of...

PVGA Annual Meeting Set for February 1 at Hershey

The Annual Meeting of the General Membership of the Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association will be held on Wednesday, February 1, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. in the Crystal Room of the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania, during the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable...

2023 PVGA Farm Show Booth Sales Were Up 76% Over Last Years

The 2023 Pennsylvania Farm Show is now history and one for the records. While we have not heard crowd estimate numbers yet, there were lots of people there and they were hungry for Farm Show food. PVGA food booth sales were over $300,000 for the first time exceeding...

PVGA Directors Meet in State College

The PVGA Board of Directors held their “fall” meeting on Tuesday, December 6, at Toftrees Resort in State College. This meeting is preceded by meetings of the various PVGA committees which make recommendations to the Board for the Association’s activities for the...