01/20/2026
The 2026 by the numbers:
🐄 18 calves born at The Calving Corner
🐖 11 piglets at the Pork Pod
🐣 24 chicks hatched
🦋 Over 4,000 butterflies in the Butterfly Tent
🚜 10 FFA tractor restorations
💰 $587,270 raised at the Junior Market Livestock Sale
🎓 21 college students from 18 PA counties and 10 universities awarded $6,000 scholarships through the PA Farm Show Scholarship Foundation, plus $1,500 per student from the Bill and Betsy Macauley Foundation
🍳 70 demonstrations and competitions at the PA Preferred Culinary Connection Stage
🧈 1,000 lbs. of butter sculpted in the
👕 1,448 Pennsylvania FFA students earned blue corduroy jackets
🏆 12,000+ competitive entries, including 5,000 animals, 4,600 exhibitors, and 250 commercial exhibits
🥤 PA Dairymen's Association: 20,200 gallons of milkshakes, 1,600 loaves of bread, 7,200 lbs. of mozzarella cheese cubes sold
🍟 Pennsylvania Co-operative Potato Growers, Inc.: 23,000 lbs. French fries, 20,000 lbs. of potato donuts, 90,000 pierogies, 9,000 lbs. baked potatoes served
🍕 Pennsylvania FFA Foundation: 25,000 pizza slices, 1,700 lbs. of mozzarella cheese, 20,000 lemonades sold
🍯 PA State Beekeepers Association: 497 gal. of ice cream, 14,000 honey sticks, 2.5 tons of honey, 950 lbs. beeswax sold
🍄 Mushroom Farmers: 10,000 lbs. of mushrooms in 6 menu items sold
🥩 Pennsylvania Livestock Association: 30,000+ lbs. of pork, beef, and other products sold
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Save the date: 2027 PA Farm Show - January 9-16.
Friends of the Pennsylvania Farm Show Foundation, Inc.
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