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Lapp Valley hosts kickoff for 59-farms-strong Scooped Ice Cream Trail
Across the Keystone State, family dairy farms are delivering farm-to-cone experiences, like Lapp Valley Farms Creamery outside New Holland, where visitors can enjoy ice cream made from milk produced by the Jersey cows grazing just steps away. That made the Lancaster County dairy a fitting location to kick off Pennsylvania’s 9th annual Scooped Ice Cream…
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Steiner Family of Ohio named Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder
The Matt Steiner Family of Pine-Tree Dairy in Wayne County, Ohio, has been named Distinguished Dairy Cattle Breeder by the National Dairy Shrine. The organization awards this honor each year to a progressive dairy breeder, who expertly implements sound genetic and business principles and would be considered one of the “all-time greats” in cattle breeding.
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‘Field to Table’ dinner celebration held in a soybean field
Like any successful crop, the Berks County Farm Bureau’s inaugural Field to Table Dinner began with a seed: What if people could enjoy a field-to-table dinner in the middle of a growing crop? On May 31, that seed came to life at Jeremy Meck’s farm near Womelsdorf, where guests dined among rows of growing soybeans…
