Agriculture
Multiple Butler County farmers report their herds are safe from a strain of avian influenza spreading among cattle in several states.
As of late April, the strain of high...
May 02, 2024
Agriculture
ADAMS TWP — Residents no longer have to look over their shoulders for loose cattle prowling their yards.
At a supervisors meeting on Monday evening, April 22, board chair...
April 24, 2024
Government
Pennsylvania Farm Link is offering free land-linking database memberships until April 30 through its database sponsor Horizon Farm Credit.
The membership includes a prof...
April 20, 2024
Agriculture
The Butler County Farm Bureau and its Women’s Leadership Committee is hosting a free agriculture education event followed by a square dance Saturday, April 20, at the But...
April 16, 2024
Agriculture
With the start of spring comes the start of the hatching season for the spotted lanternfly, an invasive species of insect which has the majority of Pennsylvania on high a...
April 07, 2024
Agriculture
An open house is planned for Wednesday at the USDA Service Center located at 625 Evans City Road in Connoquenessing Township.
This event, organized by the Butler/Beaver/...
March 21, 2024
Agriculture
Stormy Oaks Nature Conservancy will receive a grant of $33,146 from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. It is one of 12 grants awarded by t...
February 28, 2024
Agriculture
A federal judge found two Beaver County men guilty of charges filed in the poisoning death of migratory birds in June 2020 on farmland leased by one of the defendants.
Ro...
January 27, 2024
Crime & Courts
Community Partnership, based in Butler County, received a $100,000 grant, which will be distributed to veteran farmers in the form of mini-grants.
Pennsylvania Agricultur...
January 12, 2024
Agriculture
After an 11-year absence, whole milk could return to American school cafeterias, much to the delight of Butler County farmers.
The “Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act,” offi...
December 20, 2023
Education
MIDDLESEX TWP — Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding and Rep. Aaron Bernstine, R-17th, discussed a variety of issues including rural internet access and ...
December 14, 2023
Agriculture
ADAMS TWP — In front of a packed house of concerned farmers and citizens, a controversial proposed ordinance intended to prevent farm animals from “becoming a public nuis...
December 12, 2023
Agriculture
Pennsylvania Secretary of Agriculture Russell Redding will stop by the Middlesex Township Volunteer Fire Company building on Dec. 13 to provide an update on the state of ...
November 30, 2023
Agriculture
The spotted lanternfly has again been spotted in Butler County.
Swarms of the invasive insect have been spotted throughout Cranberry Township, prompting the township to ...
August 26, 2023
Local News
The Butler County Farm Bureau held its annual legislative farm tour to facilitate communication between the elected officials and the farming community on Friday, Aug. 18...
August 19, 2023
Local News
As a current gardening trend, the moon or twilight garden provides us with a special site (and sight) in our landscaping where on a warm summer evening, the scents of nig...
July 15, 2023
Agriculture
FRANKLIN TWP — Swaddled into her mother’s chest, 21-day-old Sadie Johnston rests peacefully as her mother, Erin Johnston of Butler, carefully examines a number of photogr...
June 30, 2023
Agriculture
Farmers are facing the possibility of lower than normal crops yields due to the lack of rain in what the National Weather Service classifies as a moderate drought.
A litt...
June 10, 2023
Agriculture
County part of quarantine zone
County part of quarantine zone
April 29, 2023
Agriculture
State Sen. Elder Vogel, R-47th, along with the support of a majority of other Pennsylvania Senate Republicans recently submitted a letter to the U.S. Department of Agricu...
April 13, 2023
Local News
The Butler County Farm Bureau will hold its spring meeting at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 20, at the Prospect Fire Hall in Prospect.
The program includes reports on changes...
April 07, 2023
Agriculture
According to a draft labeling recommendation released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration last month, alternative milk products — such as almond, soy and oat milk — ...
March 25, 2023
Agriculture
Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding is urging all farmers in the state to complete the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 2022 Census of Agriculture. Last mo...
December 15, 2022
Agriculture
Had Floyd Mahan not shared his whimsical idea in the 1960s, the annual Butler Farm Show would be devoid of the sight of grinning children, teens and adults pedaling aroun...
November 30, 2022
Agriculture
In the aisles at Sprankle's Neighborhood Market in Saxonburg, a traditional Thanksgiving turkey may be a little bit harder to find.
“There’s definitely a limited supply. ...
November 14, 2022
Agriculture
PROSPECT — The longtime president of the Butler County Farm Bureau stepped down and was replaced by a young farmer representing the next generation of agricultural produc...
October 14, 2022
Agriculture
A Butler nonprofit is one of two veterans’ service organizations designated the governor to distribute grants of up to $10,000 to farmer-veterans to assist with agricultu...
September 09, 2022
Government
MUDDY CREEK TWP — Ongoing efforts to allow whole milk to be served with school lunches, and the possible return of federal regulations on rainwater runoff were the top is...
September 03, 2022
Agriculture
Three farmers were named 2022 Mid-Atlantic Master Farmers by American Agriculturist magazine.
Arthur King of Valencia, who raises 137 acres of fruits and vegetables, and ...
July 09, 2022
Agriculture
June 22, 2022
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