Jessica Herr, a first-year student at Penn State, has been elected to the National FFA Organization’s officer team as secretary for 2022-23. Herr, who is majoring in agricultural science with a minor in leadership development in the College of Agricultural … Continued
What’s happening in agriculture in our region? Who better to ask than Secretaries of Agriculture of Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Michael T. Scuse was reappointed by Governor John C. Carney as Delaware Secretary of Agriculture in January 2017. … Continued
Happy to be the part-time Secretary (like Administrator) of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture, the oldest (1785) agricultural society in the country. Our monthly meeting in October took us to Longwood Gardens which is one of the premier horticultural … Continued
Please join PSPA in expressing sympathy at the passing of Francis ‘Nick’ DuPont, a long time PSPA member, passed away on July 21, 2022. See his obituary https://www.delawareonline.com/obituaries/wnj125002 which mentions his connection to PSPA. Condolence cards can be sent to Maria du … Continued
On September 1, 2022, Paul Brauer presented the PSPA Monthly Lecture. He is the President & Chief Operating Officer for Brown’s Super Stores, Inc., a growing twelve-store supermarket chain trading under the ShopRite and Fresh Grocer banners and part of … Continued
Thomas Dolan IV, 98, of Lafayette Hill, a celebrated conservationist who identified a new category of mayfly; the former executive director of the Wissahickon Valley Watershed Association, now Wissahickon Trails; and the former president of the Eastern Pennsylvania Chapter of … Continued
The name of Charles Thomson is among the 1785 list of those twenty-three founders of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. Thomson was born in Northern Ireland, was orphaned on the voyage to America at age about 11 and subsequently … Continued
There has been a considerable amount of field and laboratory research and practice on how to control and eliminate the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species of insect that is a grave threat to Pennsylvania’s and the region’s fruit industry. At … Continued
George Morgan, (1743-1810), Charter member (1785), awarded the first Gold Medal by PSPA for “his essay on Farmyards” in 1786. He was a frontier merchant, friend of Native Americans (appointed as “Indian” Agent during Revolutionary War), appointed as a Colonel … Continued
Many thanks to PSPA President Dr. Scott Sheely for an excellent program on December 2, 2021 at the Union League of Philadelphia. We welcomed new members and guests, recognized recipients of Fred Winter Memorial Scholarships, learned from experts about the … Continued
