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ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS | Staff Writer
August 1, 2024
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A 1.25-mile stretch of Caernarvon Township waterway is being hailed as a potential national model for stream restoration that shows what’s possible when long-term community engagement work among Plain Sect...
TeamAg has been awarded the Partnership Award for our efforts to support the ACAP program in partnership with conservation districts across the state. The award is presented to, "a qualified partnership who has demonstrated successful teamwork and collaboration on ACAP projects. The recipients of the award...
TeamAg engineers, John Zaginaylo and Jeff Giger recently spent time with high school kids from local schools on careers in agriculture. Thank you to the PA & Columbia County Farm Bureaus for sponsoring the event, Bloomsburg Fair Grounds for hosting, and the Pennsylvania FFA for...
ELIZABETH DEORNELLAS FOR LNP | LANCASTERONLINE Feb 6, 2023
Agricultural experts and environmentalists urge Lancaster County farmers to take advantage of millions in grants to reduce winter manure spreading and phase out a practice that is economically unproductive and environmentally risky.
Improperly managed winter manure spreading increases...
Written by Tom Venesky
Originally published on Lancaster Farming on Aug. 31, 2021
A new program has lofty goals for increasing grass-based dairy farming in southeastern Pennsylvania, and it could come with big financial benefits for farmers.
Using a $1 million grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Pasa...
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As a result of the pandemic, the 2021 PA Farm Show was held virtually. Farmers rallied to provide educational content so that families across the state could still connect with the people producing their food and fiber. TeamAg was present this year to introduce our work to help farmers build soil, improve profits, and reverse climate change through regenerative farming. Special thanks to USDA NRCS and the PA Department of Agriculture for funding the pilot projects we discuss in this talk.
TeamAg collaborated with the Environmental Defense Fund and K-Coe Isom to develop a report, entitled
How conservation makes dairy farm more resilient, especially in a lean agricultural economy, which documents how successful implementation of conservation can help farmers improve both the economic and environmental performance of their farms.
Chris Sigmund, President of TeamAg accepted an award from the Chester County Conservation District for Conservationist of the Year. We are appreciative and honored to have received this award....
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On January 3, 2018, PENNVEST and Chester County Conservation District settled on funding to install agricultural best management practices (BMPs) on Elam King’sfarm located in Colerain Township, Lancaster County. The BMPs funded include a circular manure storage facility, a heavy use area, a slatted under...
DEP to Cover Cost of at Least 800 Agricultural Plans for Clean Water in Pennsylvania’s Part of Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Harrisburg, PA – The Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will reimburse farmers in Pennsylvania’s part of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed for the cost of preparing hundreds...