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01/24/2025

As we continue to see HPAI detections in wild birds in PA, biosecurity is crucial to your poultry's health and safety.

Everyone should assume any wild bird near their flocks could be carrying the HPAI virus. Many waterfowl travel in large groups and may continue to move around the state regardless of where an initial detection happened and some birds may be asymptomatic but continue shedding the virus. Therefore, you should limit contact of your poultry with any and all wildlife. Limit your own contact with wildlife, especially wild waterfowl. If you have been in contact with or in an area where wild waterfowl frequent, make sure to change clothes and shoes, shower, and wash your vehicle before interacting with your poultry.

If you have any issues with nuisance from wildlife near your poultry, call USDA wildlife services and they can provide assistance. You can find the numbers for different state offices on this webpage. https://www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife-state-offices

If you notice dead wild birds, especially waterfowl, vultures, or birds of prey, please contact the Pennsylvania Game Commission by calling 1-833-742-9453, emailing [email protected], or using their online wildlife health survey tool at https://www.pgcapps.pa.gov/WHS/app/home

Cold temperatures can complicate cleaning and disinfection as well. Make sure to check label instructions for temperatures in which disinfectants may become less effective or require a longer contact than normal. Call the manufacturer if this information is not available on the label. Adding antifreeze to disinfect solutions can also decrease their effectiveness, so using insulated containers for these may be a better solution.

If you suspect HPAI in your poultry flock (the first sign is often a sudden increase in mortality), it should be considered an emergency! Please do not wait to seek help. Report sick or dead domestic birds to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture via their 24-Hour Hotline at 717-772-2852.

📸: We are throwing it back on this   to the Pennsylvania Agronomic Education Society's conference last week. Each year, ...
01/24/2025

📸: We are throwing it back on this to the Pennsylvania Agronomic Education Society's conference last week. Each year, this unique 1.5-day conference allows farmers, crop advisors, nutrient managers, and other agronomic professionals to discuss the latest technology and ideas for the future planting season. 💡🌱

📣 Thank you to our sponsors for supporting this unique event of networking and professional development for Pennsylvania's agronomy sector. ✨🌱

01/22/2025

Are you a current poultry judging team coach or interested in learning more about poultry judging? Join us in Gettysburg, PA on January 28, 2025 from 3:30-5:30pm for an in-person workshop all about egg judging! For more information and to register online, please visit the event page on Penn State Extension's website: https://extension.psu.edu/poultry-judging-eggs

We will have examples of all egg grades and discuss how to apply judging skills in poultry careers and at home. This is a great opportunity for hands-on experience to help prepare you and your judging teams for success!

📣📣Calling all exhibitors! 📣📣 The PennAg Expo: Keystone Pork, Poultry Progress, and MidAtlantic Manure Summit will be on ...
01/22/2025

📣📣Calling all exhibitors! 📣📣 The PennAg Expo: Keystone Pork, Poultry Progress, and MidAtlantic Manure Summit will be on March 18, 2025.

🐔 Showcase your brand to thousands of nutrient management, poultry, and swine farmers and Industry professionals.

🔓 Secure your spot now and be part of this fantastic event!

Our friends at the Center for Poultry and Livestock Excellence shared this handy   checklist for practicing the best bio...
01/21/2025

Our friends at the Center for Poultry and Livestock Excellence shared this handy checklist for practicing the best biosecurity methods.

: 🚪🦠🐔 Avian Influenza is knocking at YOUR Barn Door.

Follow these ✨FIVE ✨biosecurity tips to protect your birds and help safeguard those in your community from HPAI. Most importantly, always wash YOUR hands, Boots and clothes! 🚿🧼👐

📣Your efforts can make a difference!

🚨 Protecting poultry health on the farm and beyond is essential, especially as Avian Influenza is emerging in neighborin...
01/21/2025

🚨 Protecting poultry health on the farm and beyond is essential, especially as Avian Influenza is emerging in neighboring states. 🛡🐔

📣 Please join us this Thursday, January 23, at 9 a.m. for a ✨NEW✨ Regional HPAI Poultry Health Zoom Call that we are hosting with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture.

🦅 The call will include a Wild Bird update from the Pennsylvania Game Commission.

🚨 If you are interested in joining this informative session, please call or email Taylor Hoverter at (717)-756-1599 and [email protected] today!

📣Congratulations to Brian Macafee from Penn State University on his recognition as the Pennsylvania Agronomic Educators ...
01/19/2025

📣Congratulations to Brian Macafee from Penn State University on his recognition as the Pennsylvania Agronomic Educators Society Member of the Year. ✨👏

📸: From left is Brian Macafee and on the right is Tim Kane, 2024 Member of the Year.

This recognition occurred during the Society's Annual Meeting, held earlier this week in conjunction with the 2025 Pennsylvania Agronomic Education Conference in State College.

🌱Macafee's passion and hands-on approach to solving challenges faced by farmers, as a farmer himself and as manager of Penn State's Department of Farm Services and Operations, were some of the reasons the Society bestowed him the honor. ✨👏

✨ Our VIP Lounge is the best exclusive event during the Pennsylvania Farm Show. We want to thank our sponsors who made t...
01/16/2025

✨ Our VIP Lounge is the best exclusive event during the Pennsylvania Farm Show. We want to thank our sponsors who made this year's VIP Lounge possible. Without your generous support, we would not have been able to host this remarkable yearly gathering of legislative and agricultural industry leaders. Thank you for helping us make this possible at the 2025 . ✨

Last week during the last Saturday of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, our state's newest U.S. senator, Republican Dave McCor...
01/16/2025

Last week during the last Saturday of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, our state's newest U.S. senator, Republican Dave McCormick, chose to make his first public appearance at the PennAg VIP Lounge at the Show since being sworn in as a member of the 119th Congress.

During his visit, McCormick met with several agricultural community leaders, including Pennsylvania Grange President Matt Espenshade and PennAg members, and hosted a press conference in the Lounge at the Show. He also met with the student workers of the PennAg Food Booth.

Celebrate   by peeling and sticking your way to happiness with some PennAg Stickers!We enjoyed creating this sticker, wh...
01/13/2025

Celebrate by peeling and sticking your way to happiness with some PennAg Stickers!

We enjoyed creating this sticker, which represents the various areas of animal agriculture PennAg advocates for as we work to connect with students at events like job fairs. Call our office to reserve a roll if you are hosting an event and would like to give out PennAg stickers.

We are saying goodbye to the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show! It was a busy week full of familiar faces, laughs, and good ti...
01/12/2025

We are saying goodbye to the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show! It was a busy week full of familiar faces, laughs, and good times; in between the hustle and bustle, we served some of the BEST pork, chicken, and trout in the State! 🐖🐓🎣

📣 However, before we close this January chapter, we would like to thank our real MVPs—the crew at Gunzey’s Hot Sausage. You were the gears that helped the food booth mechanism run smoothly, and we are very thankful for your outstanding work in and out of the kitchen. 📣

We would also like to thank our members and student workers. Behind every successfully organized event there are extraordinary people that make it all happen, and that is you! 💚

Again, thank you, and we will see you all again at the Farm Show in 2026. ✨

01/10/2025

NEWS RELEASE: Preliminary Testing Confirms Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza in Caroline County

For more information please visit https://bit.ly/3WccNlX

01/09/2025

Thankful For Thursdays and those who have joined this week at the Pennsylvania Farm Show week! 🐷🍗🐔🐟

What a great group photo!!! 📸Thanks for stopping by Rep. Arvind Venkat! We hope you had fun hanging out with us in our l...
01/08/2025

What a great group photo!!! 📸Thanks for stopping by Rep. Arvind Venkat! We hope you had fun hanging out with us in our lounge at the Farm Show!! 🐮🐖🐔🐑

It’s Day 4️⃣ of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, and we have been cooking and serving delicious chicken tenders and pork BBQ!...
01/08/2025

It’s Day 4️⃣ of the Pennsylvania Farm Show, and we have been cooking and serving delicious chicken tenders and pork BBQ! 🍗 🐖🐔

We want to thank our volunteers from Heritage Poultry, MapleLawn Associates, Martins Eggs, Risser Poultry, York Ag, and Skip with Pennsylvania Horse Council, who were the gears that helped the mechanism of our counters at the food booth run smoothly. We are very thankful for your outstanding work helping us serve the best pork and chicken made and produced by Pennsylvania farmers and agribusinesses!

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A winter snowstorm doesn't stop Pennsylvanians especially FFA Students  from visiting the Farm Show or our food booth! ❄...
01/06/2025

A winter snowstorm doesn't stop Pennsylvanians especially FFA Students from visiting the Farm Show or our food booth!

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Thank you to our volunteers from the Pennsylvania FFA Foundation, Sporting Valley Feeds, York Ag, Kreamer Feed, and Goods Transportation, who braved the weather to spend their Monday with us. We appreciate you!

Day 2 of the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show is in the Books! But we could not have done it without the volunteers — some ne...
01/06/2025

Day 2 of the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show is in the Books! But we could not have done it without the volunteers — some new and old, who came in and generously shared their time and enthusiasm with us today! Thank you!

We also have to give a shout-out to our Student workers! Not only do they help us keep up with our sales, but each brings an enormous amount of them to their tasks.

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