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A farmstead in Perry Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania.. Agriculture is a major industry in the U.S. commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [1] As of the most recent United States Census of Agriculture conducted in 2017, there were 53,157 farms in Pennsylvania, covering an area of 7,278,668 acres (2,945,572 hectares) with an average size of 137 acres (55 hectares) per farm. [2]
Agriculture is an important activity in the region despite the short growing season and hilly terrain. Small-scale beef and dairy farming is common, and there are many small-scale producers of maple syrup in the region. Production of crude oil and natural gas are important to the local economy.
The following is a list of the 70 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
The pre-revolutionary agriculture of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (Lancaster County Historical Society, 1975) online. McMurry, Sally. Pennsylvania Farming: A History in Landscapes (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017) see "Chapter 5 Transformations on the Lancaster Plain: The Rise of America’s 'Banner County'" pp.62–78. Magee, Erin.
The Grand View Dairy Farm has eight contributing buildings and four contributing structures: a two-and-one-half-story, log farmhouse that was built on a stone foundation circa 1790, a frame farmhouse that was erected on a stone foundation circa 1890, a frame summer kitchen that was built sometime around 1890, a smokehouse, a butcher shop, a stone dairy barn that was built in 1849, a frame ...
Livestock farming was more popular in the county than crop cultivation. In 2002, the egg and poultry industry in the county generated $32 million in sales (the 7th highest of the Pennsylvania counties) and the dairy industry generated $17 million in sales (the 23rd highest of the Pennsylvania counties).
The Minnesota Department of Agriculture recognized 14 dairy farms in Stearns County, two in Benton County and one in Sherburne County for low somatic cell counts.
Thousands of acres of old-growth forest were cleared to meet the demands for lumber during the lumber era that swept throughout Pennsylvania. Williamsport, which is just south of Gamble Township, was known at the "Lumber Capital of the World". Today Gamble Township is a largely rural area with scattered dairy farms, orchards, and family homes.