CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 Across the state, farmers say it’s been a good year for the pumpkin crop, and that’s good news in a number of ways.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s that time of year as two of the top topics for conversation in Pennsylvania are politics and pumpkins.<\/p>\n
In recent years, it seems that sometime between the Fourth of July and Labor Day, the annual transformation to everything pumpkin begins.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh yeah, pumpkin spice lattes, pumpkin rolls, everything pumpkin,\u201d<\/p>\n
At the Harner Farm near State College, it\u2019s one of the many farms where the spring fruit cop was practically wiped out, but the pumpkin production has been the opposite.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has been plenty of rain; it\u2019s been a nice summer, no major storms, anything like that. Out of the last ten years, this is probably one of the best years we’ve had.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to Penn State’s Ag extension, Pennsylvania is among the top pumpkin growing states in the nation,<\/p>\n
In fact, researchers say there are pumpkin farms in all but one of the state’s 67 counties.<\/p>\n
And the pumpkins in Pennsylvania also play a role in another top industry — tourism marketing, or what they term Ag tourism.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe try to make a show of it; driving by you want the first impression to be, \u2018oh wow, look at that place, that looks neat.\u2019 Hopefully get some drive by traffic as well.\u201d<\/p>\n
As the state’s top farmer recommends, whether its pumpkins or other goods, stop by your local farmers markets.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery dollar spent on local farms helps sustain a local business, that is invested here and across Pennsylvania for generations. That\u2019s important for Pennsylvania agriculture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CENTRE COUNTY, Pa (WJAC) \u2014 Across the state, farmers say it’s been a good year for the pumpkin…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-314897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314897","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=314897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}