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Luke Brubaker admitted that he’s proud of his soil as he bent over and gestured with an extended arm to a field on his northwestern Lancaster County dairy operation.
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Simon Itle, 26, is a fourth-generation family member at Vale Wood Farms, Loretto, where he is the milk processing plant manager. He is also vice chairman of Pennsylvania Young Ag Professionals as well as a representative of District 12. / Mirror photo by Walt Frank
Pennsylvania Young Ag Professionals is working to get more people involved in agriculture.
YAP, part of Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, has regional chapters throughout the state and is open to Farm Bureau members ages 18-35. They’re involved in networking, getting younger farmers engaged in advocacy, hosting regional and statewide events and contests, said Liam Migdail, bureau spokesman.
HARRISBURG â The Pennsylvania Department of Health has directed all vaccine providers in the state to âpauseâ the administration of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine until at least April 20 following reports that six people who received it developed blood clots.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration recommended the pause after six women between 18 and 48 years old in the United States developed cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, a rare but severe type of blood clot, within six to 13 days of receiving the J&J vaccine.
About 6.8 million people nationwide have received the J&J vaccine, which puts the odds of experiencing this side effect at more than one in a million, making it exceedingly rare. Pennsylvania has administered 262,739 of those doses, Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam said during a news briefing Tuesday.
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Marty Yahner walks among the black angus steers at Yahner Brother Farms outside of Patton. / Mirror photo by Patrick Waksmunski
The coronavirus pandemic has left a significant mark on the agriculture industry but it has also provided a learning experience.
“Perhaps the biggest lesson for agriculture to come out of the pandemic is how important it is for our food supply chain to be able to adapt to unexpected circumstances. Early in the pandemic we saw the food supply chain disrupted in two major ways,” said Liam Migdail, Pennsylvania Farm Bureau spokesman.
There were major bottlenecks in food processing.