Feb 10, 2023 | News
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...
Feb 10, 2023 | News
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...
Feb 4, 2023 | News
The Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers Association and the State Horticulture Association of Pennsylvania together recognized a special friend of Pennsylvania’s fruit and vegetable growers –...
Feb 4, 2023 | News
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...
Feb 4, 2023 | News
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...
Jan 21, 2023 | News
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...
Jan 21, 2023 | News
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...
Dec 17, 2022 | News
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...
Oct 19, 2022 | News
The Fruit + Vegetable 40 Under 40 Awards honor 40 outstanding individuals making their marks in the industry. Three persons nominated by PVGA were selected for this year’s class of honorees – Jennifer Glenister, owner of New Morning Farm; Kaitlyn Horst,...
Oct 19, 2022 | News
The terms of six members of the PVGA Board of Directors expire at the Annual Meeting scheduled for Wednesday, February 1, 2023. The Directors whose terms expire are: – Rita Resick – Somerset – first elected 2017 – Christopher Harner – State College –...
