Ag Week: Celebrating Lancaster County Agriculture

On a Monday at the New Holland Sales Stables, buyers from all over the East Coast gather around the auction ring to wait for the next sale to start.

While tourism is the most obvious side benefit of Lancaster County agriculture, a whole host of other enterprises have been spun off from farming.

Lancaster County's local vegetable crop is the most valuable in the state, according to the latest agriculture census. Here’s the story of one vegetable from farm to plate.

You like to-may-toes, and I like to-mah-toes.

Looming manpower shortage could affect ag, food-processing industries in Pennsylvania.

•Number of farms: 5,657

From first-time tillers to those whose forebears worked the land for generations, today's Lancaster County farmer is anything but stereotypica…