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Herdshare. A herdshare is a contractual arrangement between a farmer and an owner of livestock - the shareholder or member - through which the shareholder is able to obtain raw milk, meat, offal and other profits of the livestock proportionate to the shareholder's interest in the herd. [1] Herdshares include cowshares, goatshares, and ...
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]
Waldrep Dairy Farm. Winchester Cheese Company. Winder Farms. Winter Park Dairy. Wawa Food Markets 1890, George Wood, a businessperson from New Jersey, moved to Delaware County, Pennsylvania; it was here that he began the Wawa Dairy Farm.
Dairy industry in the United States. The dairy industry in the United States includes the farms, cooperatives, and companies that produce milk and cheese and related products, such as milking machines, and distribute them to the consumer. By 1925, the United States had 1.5-2 million dairy cows, each producing an average of 4200 lb of milk per year.
Beaufort Farms ( / ˈboʊfərt /) is an unincorporated community in northern Susquehanna Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, in the Harrisburg–Carlisle Metropolitan Statistical Area. It is a historical farmland settlement and currently developed community of neighborhoods. Previous names for the area have included Beaufort or Calder Farms .
Hillandale Farms was founded in 1958 by Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania resident Orland Bethel. [1] It has a corporate office in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, a distribution center in Plum, Pennsylvania, and egg producing locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Connecticut. [1] In 2010, Hillandale was partially responsible for a salmonella outbreak. [2]
MOOMilk Dairy products. Maine’s Own Organic Milk Company, L3C, or MOOMilkCo, was a low-profit, partly farmer-owned, L3C corporation set up to help Maine organic family dairy farms maintain a market and achieve profitability. [1] It was established with 10 organic dairy farms that were dropped by H.P. Hood, a large dairy product distributor. [2]
Open to the public. Wilsondale Farm is a dairy farm in Gray, Maine, United States. It is notable for its introduction of a specific breed of Holstein cow. It was originally known as Springdale Farm. The farm, of 900 acres (3,600,000 m 2 ), was purchased by New Gloucester 's Pineland Farms in 2001. It is run by the Wilson family, as it has been ...