Farming & Agriculture

• Beaver County – 1850 Census Farm Data
• Beaver County – 1880 Census Farm Data (10% Sample)
• 2002 Census of Agriculture County Profile: Beaver, Pennsylvania
• 2017 Census of Agriculture County Profile: Beaver, Pennsylvania
• Current Beaver County Stats (Agriculture in Beaver County)
• Farm Subsidies in Beaver County, Pa, 1995-2021. 354 recipients.
  • Commodity subsidies in Beaver County, Pennsylvania totaled $6.5 million from 1995-2021.
  • What are farm subsidies?

• A Real American Idol Celebrates 100th: Mail Pouch (Milestones Vol 32 No. 2)
• Annual Ag Literacy Week connects Pennsylvania farmers and children
• Beaver County Agricultural Land Preservation 
• Beaver County Emergency Services: “Farmers Special Needs Card”
• Don Kretschmann of Kretschmann Organic Farm in Rochester, Pennsylvania has been at it for almost 50 years
• Farmers Emergency Information: What You Should Know About Nuclear Power Plant Incidents
• Farming Life on the Southside” 1900-1920 (Milestones Vol 9 No 2)
• Farming without a farm: The Sheplers, of Beaver County, are renting land with dreams of one day having their own farm
• First Farm Society of Beaver County (Milestones Vol 14 No 4)
• Historic Agricultural Resources of Pennsylvania c 1700-1960 – Pennsylvania’s Historic Agricultural Regions
• Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: Farm Mechanics by Sam Moore
• Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: Farm Trucks by Sam Moore
• Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: Tractors by Sam Moore
• Milk Control Board (Milestones Vol 14 No 2)
• Old Cider Mill, Krut Farm, Daugherty Township (Milestones Vol 9 No 4)
• Pennsylvania launches crisis hotline for farmers
• Southwestern Pennsylvania Diversified – Agriculture and Sheep Raising, c. 1840-1960
• The Mount Pleasant Hillside Farm (Milestones Vol. 7. No.2)
• Wanted: A farmer. Successful organic farm in western Pa. is closing because no one wants to run it
• Western Pennsylvania pasture walk shows lessons learned through grazing
• Zahn Recalls Farms of the 30s and 40s (Milestones Vol 29. No. 4)

ORGANIZATIONS

• Penn State Extension
• Tall Pines Farms
• McChesney Farm Fun
• Beaver County Farmers Market
• Broadrun Farms
• Beaver County Farms & Farm Fresh Produce
• Mahoning County (Ohio) Agricultural Hall of Fame

NOTABLE PEOPLE

• Johnny Appleseed Was Familiar Figure in Beaver County (Milestones Vol 11 No 3)
• Sam Moore (formerly of South Beaver Township), columnist (Let’s Talk Rusty Iron), Farm & Dairy
• Rachel Wagoner (Darlington Township), writer for Farm & Dairy
• Colby Carreon (Darlington), Pennsylvania 4-H State Council president

HISTORY PROJECTS

• Farmer Oral History Collection (College of Wooster, Ohio)
• USDA Sustainable Agriculture Oral History Series
• Southern Agriculture Oral History Project Records
• Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project
• WPSU – Story Corps Ag Progress Days