(File Photo of State Senator Elder Vogel, Jr.)

Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Harrisburg, PA) Sen. Elder Vogel Jr. (R-47) and Sen. Judy Schwank (D-11), chairs of the Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee, will hold a news conference tomorrow in Harrisburg to celebrate National Dairy Month and mark 250 years of Pennsylvania’s dairy industry.

The event will take place at 9:30 a.m. in the East Wing Rotunda.

State officials and dairy industry leaders are expected to join the lawmakers, including Deputy Secretary Lisa Graybeal of the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture; state Reps. Eddie Day Pashinski and Dan Moul, chairs of the House Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee; and representatives from the Center for Dairy Excellence and the Pennsylvania Dairymen’s Association.

Also expected to attend are Pennsylvania Farm Bureau President Chris Hoffman, along with state and county dairy princess royalty members.