Pennsylvania Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Agriculture=== {{main|Agriculture in Pennsylvania}} Pennsylvania ranks 19th overall among all states in agricultural production.<ref name="ag">{{Cite web|url=http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/census02/profiles/pa/cp99042.PDF|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414005319/http://www.nass.usda.gov/census/census02/profiles/pa/cp99042.PDF|url-status=dead|title=Agricultural Census 2002|archive-date=April 14, 2008}}</ref> Its leading agricultural products are [[fungiculture|mushrooms]], apples, [[Christmas tree]]s, [[Egg (food)|layer chickens]], [[Nursery (horticulture)|nursery]], [[sod]], milk, [[maize|corn]] for [[silage]], grapes (including [[Grape juice|juice grapes]]), and horses production. Pennsylvania ranks eighth in the nation in [[winemaking]];<ref name="PAwine">{{cite web|url=http://www.pennsylvaniawine.com/Facts.aspx |title=Pennsylvania Wine facts |publisher=Pennsylvania Wine & Wineries |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223213434/http://pennsylvaniawine.com/Facts.aspx |archive-date=February 23, 2009 }}{{Citation needed|date=September 2014}}</ref> however, similar to [[New York (state)|New York]], it is not allowed to be sold in grocery stores. The [[Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture]] worked with private companies to establish "PA Preferred" as a way to brand agricultural products grown or made in the state.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.pennlive.com/food/index.ssf/2014/01/pa_preferred_pa_farm_show_pa_m.html |title=What is PA Preferred? Just a pretty logo or a way to build a brand? |work=[[The Patriot-News]] |date=January 8, 2014 |access-date=February 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224040150/http://www.pennlive.com/food/index.ssf/2014/01/pa_preferred_pa_farm_show_pa_m.html |archive-date=February 24, 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> The financial impact of agriculture in Pennsylvania<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cidepiqc.com/partners/state-of-pennsylvania/agribusiness/ |title=Agribusiness |website=CIDEP—Investment Attraction & Business Leads Generation |access-date=October 7, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140910202950/http://cidepiqc.com/partners/state-of-pennsylvania/agribusiness/ |archive-date=September 10, 2014 }}</ref> includes employment of more than 66,800 people employed by the food [[manufacturing]] industry and over $1.7 billion in food product [[export]] as of 2011. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page