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Penn State's Ag Progress Days offers 'something for everyone'

8/6/18

Everything agriculture and more can be found at Penn State's Ag Progress days, which kicks off Aug. 14 and continues through Aug. 16 at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center at Rock Springs in Ferguson Township, Centre County.

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Pasto Ag Museum to offer thought-provoking exhibit at Ag Progress Days

8/2/17

Visitors to Penn State's Pasto Agricultural Museum always have been encouraged to think about what it was like to be a farm family member in the distant past, but a special exhibit to be unveiled at Ag Progress Days will ask them to ponder what an old-time farmer thought about each day, and then compare that to what today's farmer thinks about every day.

Timber 2017 in-the-woods demo

Pennsylvania's forest-products industry the focus of Timber 2017 expo

5/18/17

Businesses and individuals interested in Pennsylvania's large forest-products industry can learn about goods, services, best practices and industry trends at the 2017 Forest Products Equipment and Technology Exposition, which will take place Friday, June 9, and Saturday, June 10, at Penn State's Ag Progress Days site at Rock Springs.

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Historic herbarium featured at Pasto Museum open house Oct. 11

10/7/15

The fourth in a series of fall open houses at Penn State's Pasto Agricultural Museum, to be held Oct. 11, will focus on the Pennsylvania Agricultural College Herbarium, established by the University's first president, Evan Pugh, in the 1800s.

Jerome K. Pasto, curator of the Pasto Agricultural Museum at Penn State

A passion for the past: The Pasto Agricultural Museum

9/2/15

In 1974, the alumni of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences began an extensive project to gather and preserve pieces of agricultural history. With a mere $1,500 in donations from alumni, what is today's Pasto Agricultural Museum officially opened on Aug. 22, 1979. The museum will kick off its 2015 fall open-house series, held home football game Sundays, starting Sept. 13.

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