Numerous elected officials attended the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg in January, some to check on constituents who were exhibiting or participating in other ways, some with family and friends to see what the Farm Show had to offer, and others to make presentations of their own. Bradford County commissioner Daryl Miller and his wife, Kay, were found admiring this year’s butter sculpture in the Main Hall at the Pennsylvania Farm show in Harrisburg on Jan. 8, after they attended a legislative luncheon that was part of Public Officials Day. The butter sculpture has been a popular fixture at the Farm Show since 1991. It contains about 1,000 pounds of butter that will be recycled as biofuel at the end of the end of the Farm Show. (Photo by Rick Hiduk originally published in the Rocket Courier)
Sullivan County commissioner Darlene Fenton (above, right) was among those whom Sen. Gene Yaw invited to share a lunch table on Public Officials Day, Jan. 8, at the Pennsylvania Farm Show. It was Fenton’s second time attending the country’s largest indoor ag-related event, and she was impressed not only by the number of Sullivan County residents who took part this year, but also by how many won big prizes. Both were interviewed for a news segment on GEM 99 & 100 that aired on Jan. 9. Senator Yaw stopped by the Farm Show Complex several times during the week and chaired a meeting of the The Center for Rural PA and the PA Rural Population Revitalization Committee on Jan. 9. (Photo by Rick Hiduk originally published in the Sullivan Review)
Rep. Jonathan Fritz is flanked by Jack Kowalewski (left) and Alex Empet of Susquehanna County, both recipients on Jan. 7 of scholarships from the Pennsylvania Farm Show Scholarship Foundation and the McCauley Foundation. (Photo by Rick Hiduk originally published in the Susquehanna County Independent)
U.S. Rep. Dan Meuser (above, right) was interviewed by Farm Show reporter Rick Hiduk for a news segment on GEM 99 & 100 that aired on Jan. 10. He spoke of the importance of the Endless Mountains counties to the state as a whole when it comes to agricultural and the importance of the natural gas industry to the overall economy. (Submitted photo originally posted on the GEM 99 & 100 Facebook page.)