(File Photo of Senator Elder Vogel)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) According to a release from Senator Elder Vogel Jr.’s office, Vogel and Representative Eddie Day Pashinski will hold a joint informational hearing today at 10 a.m. at the Red Barn Annex at 2710 West Pine Grove Road, in Pennsylvania Furnace. This hearing is being held and is  being conjuncted with the Annual Ag Progress Days Event from Penn State University. The state of the livestock industry in Pennsylvania will be discussed. A joint panel will be hosting U.S. Representative Glenn Thompson, representatives of Pennsylvania processors and representatives of Pennsylvania farmers for beef, dairy, poultry, sheep and swine. Vogel and Pashinski are the majority chairs of both the Senate and House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committees. The included testifiers at the event are: 

• Glenn Gorrell, president of the PA Dairymen’s Association 

• Darwin Nissley, president of the PA Cattlemen’s Association 

• Coleman Wagner, general manager of Ag Ventures Swine Management Services 

• Chris Pierce, president of Heritage Poultry Management Services, Inc. 

• Dan Turner, president of the PA Sheep and Wool Growers Association 

• Tessa Applegate, chief financial officer for Clark’s Feed Mill, Inc.