Studying the Potato Famine Pathogen

Dec 30, 2016 | Potato

New North Carolina State University research delves into the movement and evolution of the pathogen that caused the Irish potato famine in the 1840s, which set down roots in the United States before attacking Europe. To track the evolution of differing strains of...

Real Solutions for Healthy Eating

Dec 29, 2016 | News

Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion (CNPP) launched a New Year’s campaign to help Americans turn their resolutions into real solutions for healthy eating in 2017. This campaign is supported by new and existing...

An Effective Vegetable Rotation

Dec 29, 2016 | Vegetables

Issues with weeds, insects, and disease make certified organic production of vegetables challenging in the southeastern United States. Maintaining and building soil organic carbon in midscale organic production systems can also be difficult due to the warm, moist...

Strip Tillage, Rowcovers for Cucurbits

Dec 29, 2016 | Vegetables

Plasticulture systems, the use of polyethylene mulch on raised beds with drip irrigation, are common in the production of many cucurbit crops in the Northeastern US. Plasticulture systems have numerous benefits, but concerns about costs and the environmental impacts...

Farm Market Tour Details Published

Dec 26, 2016 | News

The details of the Farm Market Bus Tour planned for January 30, the day prior to the opening of the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention have been announced here.  The tour will visit Flinchbaugh’s Orchard and Farm Market in York, Brown’s...

Hydroponics Session Schedule Announced

Dec 26, 2016 | News

The schedule for the Hydroponics session on Tuesday afternoon, January 31, at the 2017 Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Convention was recently finalized.  It is as follows: Hydroponics  –  Empire Room CD 1:30      The Latest in Greenhouse LED Research – Dr. A....

Delay Sought in New WPS Regulations Effective Date

Dec 26, 2016 | News

The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture have petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to delay the January 2017 start date of its worker protection safety rule.  AFBF and NASDA cited EPA violations of...

Organic Certification Made Easier

Dec 26, 2016 | News

Thanks to a newly re-positioned farmer cost share program, announced December 23 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), organic producers and handlers will have improved access to organic certification cost share assistance starting in spring of 2017.  To read...

We Need Your Help at the 2017 Farm Show!!!

Dec 18, 2016 | Uncategorized

If you have not volunteered to help at the Association’s food booth at the Farm Show, call PVGA today at 717-694-3596.  We need at least 25 volunteers in the booth at all the times.  Since the Farm Show runs from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m., we need two shifts to...

These Tomatoes Ripen Weeks Earlier

Dec 18, 2016 | News

These Tomatoes Ripen Weeks Earlier Using a simple and powerful genetic method to tweak genes native to two popular varieties of tomato plants, a team at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) has devised a rapid method to make them flower and produce ripe fruit more...