Pennsylvania Agriculture News (United States)

XL Lockers with quiet-slam doors and sloping drains for easier cleaning compete with lockers only 2/3 the size.

Registrations Up Over 20% as REMCON Plastics shares 630,000 Square Feet with 1600 exhibitors to Showcase Its Reusable Containers and Custom Molded Solutions.

Users are wasting millions of dollars each year while filling shrinking landfills with throwaway cardboard containers.

REMCON Plastics develops a custom designed hopper cradle assembly with the precision to work in an automated guided vehicle storage system

Replace single use corrugated cartons and cardboard combo containers. Eliminates fiber and wood sliver contamination, disposal costs and reduces labor for food and pharma industries.

Multiply your savings when Lean Manufacturing Analysis is the foundation for your custom engineered material handling solutions.

Made from lightweight, rotationally molded plastic with integral, comfort molded handgrips; Rollet® units provide easy, safe and secure movement of products or cargo through your facility- and they're only available from REMCON Plastics.

Come ready to discuss improvements you would like to see in your manufacturing processes with The Wise Rotomolder and his team of bulk handling specialists. On site consultations can be scheduled in Booth 7122.

Shade-grown coffee is coffee grown under a forest canopy, an ecologically-sustainable practice. The term "shade-grown" for use with tea refers to a very different practice, which is not any more sustainable than conventional tea production.

Climate and geography influence tea production, both in terms of where the tea plant can be grown, and how the finished tea tastes. RateTea has published a new resource explaining the relationships between climate, geography, and tea production.

Visit Booth 4051 at IPE Atlanta and see how you reusable bins replace cardboard and save you over $120000 annually for every 100 bins.

XL Lockers with quiet-slam doors and sloping drains for easier cleaning compete with lockers only 2/3 the size.

RateTea.net has published its guide to tippy tea, tea that is high in the portion of leaf buds. This guide explains the differences in flavor, caffeine, and price between tippy and non-tippy teas, and how to visually identify tippy tea.

Registrations Up Over 20% as REMCON Plastics shares 630,000 Square Feet with 1600 exhibitors to Showcase Its Reusable Containers and Custom Molded Solutions.

Users are wasting millions of dollars each year while filling shrinking landfills with throwaway cardboard containers.

REMCON Plastics develops a custom designed hopper cradle assembly with the precision to work in an automated guided vehicle storage system

Total product redesign produces stronger locker with closer tolerances at a price that competes well with lockers 2/3 its size.

REMCON Plastics uses new in house process that develops holistic solutions to customer bottlenecks and delivers an even better return on their investment.

Pennsylvania Company’s Self-Grooming/Scratching Pad Rubs Barnyard Pets the Right Way

Kencove Farm Fence to display latest additions to product line at 49th annual show.

Replace single use corrugated cartons and cardboard combo containers. Eliminates fiber and wood sliver contamination, disposal costs and reduces labor for food and pharma industries.

Multiply your savings when Lean Manufacturing Analysis is the foundation for your custom engineered material handling solutions.

Made from lightweight, rotationally molded plastic with integral, comfort molded handgrips; Rollet® units provide easy, safe and secure movement of products or cargo through your facility- and they're only available from REMCON Plastics.

Come ready to discuss improvements you would like to see in your manufacturing processes with The Wise Rotomolder and his team of bulk handling specialists. On site consultations can be scheduled in Booth 7122.

Sunbury Press has released Bill Felker's "Poor Will's Almanac - 2012".

First year implementation of 2011-2015 Strategic Plan has catapulted REMCON Plastics into new growth phase.

REMCON Plastics to exhibit reusable custom molded containers that replace single use disposable corrugated and eliminate contamination.

Pineapple sage, Salvia elegans, a plant normally only hardy to USDA Hardiness Zones 8, has successfully overwintered, outdoors, in Alex Zorach's garden in Newark, Delaware, a region which lies near the border of 7a and 6b.

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology will conduct consumer testing from April 28 through May 11.

The Innovations in Food Safety Conference will host keynote speakers giving overviews of emerging food safety issues and breakout sessions describing successful approaches to improving food safety and quality along the farm-to-table continuum.

Scratchnall® Self-Grooming/Scratching Pads Available in “Soft Touch” Version

With over 30 years of providing tree services to Chester, Delaware and Montgomery County, PA. this experience and knowledge is something to consider when choosing a tree service company.

Harrisburg University of Science and Technology will offer several Food Safety Certification training courses at its location at 326 Market Street in Harrisburg during Spring and Summer 2011.

Tweed Restaurant brings their locally grown, farm to table philosophy to their brand new lunch menu. Located in Center City Philadelphia in the trendy MidTown Village Neighborhood.

Farmer Boy Ag Supply, a wholesale supplier of agricultural equipment and supplies for dairy, swine, and poultry facilities, is excited to announce its newest business venture, becoming an authorized dealer of L.B. White construction heaters.

Farmer Boy Ag Supply, a wholesale supplier of agricultural equipment and supplies for dairy, swine, and poultry facilities, introduces a new line of ventilation products exclusively sold through Farmer Boy AG Supply.

Farmer Boy Ag Supply, a wholesale supplier of agricultural equipment and supplies for dairy, swine, and poultry facilities, including feeders, waterers, feed bins, lighting, heating, ventilation & more; introduces a new, improved E-Commerce website.

A welder was killed at farm, when a piece of pipe fell from a trackhoe, hitting him in the head.

A thirteen-year-old Amish boy is dead after terrible accident on farm.

A man who got stuck in a grain bin died of asphyxiation before rescue workers could reach him.

Bucks County Residents Enjoy "The Bounty of Bucks County"

Enjoy Washington County, its people, its rural character, and its great agricultural traditions. For over a century the Fair has been an important part of the community. It has been changing with the world but at the same time remembers the past.

An upcoming event hosted by Harrisburg University of Science and Technology will provide timely information to food industry leaders, managers and other related industries on the impact of the pending federal Food Safety and Modernization Act.

Terry Geber, ranch manager of Fire Creek Ranch in Huson, Mont., has been selected as the 2010 EQUUS Magazine Professional Horseman Award winner.

NEFF has selected forest carbon development company Finite Carbon to develop an Improved Forest Management project, which involves 2,100 acres of the Hersey Mountain Forest in New Hampshire, under Climate Action Reserve protocols.

Mr. Brian Oram, Professional Geologists, participated in the PA Watershed Summit and presented information of the C-SAW Program (Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds). The C-SAW Program provides free technical assistace in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania-based contractor of pole barns and post frame construction wins prestigious "Judge's Special" award from industry trade association.

Foundation for Pennsylvania Watersheds, the PA Department of Environmental Protection, and the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University in promoting the health and future of Pennsylvania’s waterways on Saturday, May 1, 2010

The Pocono Northeast Resource Conservation & Development Council is the coordinator and the project administrator for the Consortium for Scientific Assistance to Watersheds (C-SAW) Program in Pennsylvania. The program can offer free assistance.

B.F. Environmental Consultants Inc is facilitating a training course in the use of biomass to co-fire coal boilers to help reduce emissions and act as a transitional source of energy and reduce carbon emissions.

Funding is available to farmers, landowners, livestock and horse owners to install Best Management Practices in Fishing Creek, Chillisquaque/Limestone, Briar Creek, Roaring Creek, and Catawissa Creek Watersheds.

The focus of the event is to update landowners on the pests affecting the Poconos and Wayne County, Pennsylvania- The Poconos Region. These pests include Tent Caterpillars, Gypsy Moths, Hemlock Woolly Adelgid, Emerald Ash Borer, and more

Festive holiday decor with decorating tips using live plants.

Want to work with animals? AnimalJobs.com is celebrating 10 years.

Pocono Northeast Resource Conservation & Development Council is awarded a grant from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation to reduce non-point source pollution from entering local waterways and degrading water quality in select watersheds in NEPA.

The Penn State Extension is faciliating workshops by the PA Department of Agriculture on the use of composting technology to manage and dispose of dead farm animals.

Mercyhurst College launches sustainable garden to provide a rich educational benefit for students while helping to lighten the college’s carbon footprint.

Seven Stars Farm, Inc.’s Original Whole Milk Plain Yogurt tops a nationwide survey of health food stores being published in the July/August 2009 issue of Organic Products magazine.