{"id":83196,"date":"2026-01-10T10:26:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83196\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:26:10","slug":"2026-pennsylvania-farm-show-kicks-off-in-harrisburg-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83196\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Pennsylvania Farm Show Kicks Off in Harrisburg | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HARRISBURG, PA (WENY) \u2014 The 2026 <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/farmshow\/pa-farm-show\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pennsylvania Farm Show<\/a> kicked off in the state capital of Harrisburg, with an opening ceremony on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s theme is \u2018Growing a Nation\u2019, celebrating Pennsylvania\u2019s role in the birth of America 250 years ago. The Farm Show is a showcase of the state\u2019s agriculture, and this year the event marks the official kickoff of America250PA celebrations across the Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p>At Friday\u2019s opening ceremony, the farm show also welcomed one of America\u2019s founding fathers &#8211; Benjamin Franklin [an actor], who credits the state\u2019s hard-working farmers and agriculture as keys to the nation\u2019s early success, and continued prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am told this Farm Show tradition of some 110 years \u2014 fairly recent in my estimation \u2014 is this Commonwealth&#8217;s State Fair, a celebration of agricultural pursuits that seeks to bring together those who farm and those who reap the fruits of their labor. I applaud my fellow Pennsylvanians for this noble tradition of bringing the citizenry together to foster education and understanding. This is the path to civil discourse, understanding, and ultimately, Growing A Nation. By understanding each other, we create a fertile ground for solving our collective challenges and the pressing problems of this day and the days ahead, as our nation embarks upon the next 250 years,\u201d Franklin said.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Farm Show runs daily from January 10 through January 17, at the Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg. It features more than 250 commercial exhibits, 5,000 animals, and competitors from local and county fairs, organizations and schools.<\/p>\n<p>To view the daily schedule, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pa.gov\/agencies\/farmshow\/pa-farm-show\/daily-schedule\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, PA (WENY) \u2014 The 2026 Pennsylvania Farm Show kicked off in the state capital of Harrisburg, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[139,28,30,29,14537],"class_list":{"0":"post-83196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pennsylvania","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-pennsylvania","10":"tag-pennsylvania-headlines","11":"tag-pennsylvania-news","12":"tag-regional"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83196","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=83196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}