Philip Gruber

Timber companies are trying to position wood chips as a renewable fuel source.

Despite a procedural setback in the Senate, Rep. Glenn Thompson, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee is still gunning to pass the Farm Bill in 2026.

Lancaster Farming’s news manager recounts his week of visiting farms, fairs and historic sites in Virginia’s richest agricultural region.

Jamie Shenk described his strategy for managing a rye and hairy vetch cover crop mix during a Virginia Grain Producers Association meeting.

A dairy farming family provides cattle for most of the 4-H dairy club to compete at Virginia’s Loudoun County Fair.

For a few decades in the 1800s, the United States experienced a “canal mania” that expanded agriculture in the Mid-Atlantic and Midwest.

These 100 Americans, from farmers to artists, politicians to scientists, shaped the history of agriculture through innovation, leadership and discovery.

This week’s roundup covers Pennsylvania ag groups joining the Great American State Fair at the last minute, President Donald Trump suspending duties on Moroccan phosphate fertilizer, Pennsylvania lawmakers passing data

The U.S. Senate proposes its Farm Bill text without a controversial livestock housing proposal. Pennsylvania advances a tax cut for brewers and a paraquat ban.

A New Jersey legislative committee approved a bill to create a $5 million mentoring program for beginning farmers. Virginia will prepare a farm prosperity plan. Farmers sue the dairy checkoff

Dickinson College Farm has started a methane digester that will annually divert 115 tons of cafeteria waste and turn manure into energy. The secret to the digester’s success so far

Republicans propose funding milk dispensers in schools, a USDA safety-net program approaches $10 billion in payments, and New Jersey weighs helping farmers buy inputs in bulk.

The United States has experienced many farmer revolts, uprisings and protest movements throughout its history. Here are a dozen of the most notable.

Alexander Hamilton designed a tax with crushing effects on western Pennsylvania distillers and farmers. They protested, then violently rebelled, before George Washington led an army to stop the insurrection.

Massachusetts farmers rebelled against debt and tax policies in the 1780s, showing the inadequacies of the Articles of Confederation.

This week’s policy roundup covers a Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruling that will affect how private landowners are taxed for stormwater improvements, a New Jersey bill to help soil conservation district

Pennsylvania House Democrats advanced a bill to increase ag innovation funding to $19 million, but Republicans say the program lacks oversight and is being used for favoritism.

Pennsylvania Farm Bureau’s board voted April 9 to limit its president’s communication with staff to a handful of senior employees. The state’s leading farm lobby gave few details on the

Farm Bureau’s Tyler Hough discussed 2026 legislative wins, including funding for Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation and the defeat of a ban on neonicotinoid seed treatments.

Harrisburg Dairies has received approval to sell the business for $4.95 million.