{"id":294071,"date":"2026-09-25T23:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294071\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T23:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T23:06:08","slug":"pa-farming-officials-visit-berks-county-for-industry-update-reading-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294071\/","title":{"rendered":"PA farming officials visit Berks County for industry update | Reading Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; Some of the state&#8217;s top farming officials stopped in Berks County to give an update on the state of the industry.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding and state veterinarian Alex Hamberg spoke at Penn State Berks in Spring Township.<\/p>\n<p>Redding discussed workforce challenges and how changing tastes are forcing changes in the dairy industry.<\/p>\n<p>Hamberg talked about bird flu and other illnesses that affect farm animals and the importance of early detection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRING TWP., Pa. &#8211; Some of the state&#8217;s top farming officials stopped in Berks County to give an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[2470,121767,31314,349,13121,42380,44157,128,130,129,10674,121766],"class_list":["post-294071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-agriculture","tag-alex-hamberg","tag-animal-health","tag-berks-county","tag-bird-flu","tag-dairy-industry","tag-penn-state-berks","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-russell-redding","tag-workforce-challenges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}