Shapiro Administration Announces 2025 PA Farm Show Theme: Powering Pennsylvania – BCTV

2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show Theme: Powering Pennsylvania

On Thursday, Sept. 26, Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding and Community and Economic Development Secretary Rick Siger announced the 2025 Pennsylvania Farm Show theme, Powering Pennsylvania, at Oregon Dairy in Lititz. The Lancaster County business embodies the 2025 Pennsylvania State Fair theme as a family-run agritourism destination, green-energy producer, and community economic driver.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

1. No Poverty
2. Zero Hunger
3. Good Health and Well-being
4. Quality Education
5. Clean Energy
6. Decent Work and Economic Growth
7. Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
8. Sustainable Cities and Communities
9. Responsible Consumption and Production
10. Climate Action

“Agriculture powers Pennsylvania,” said Secretary Redding. “We hope you’ll join us in January to kick off your 2025 with people like Oregon Dairy’s Hurst and Forry families, who power our families with nutritious food every day. Thousands of farm families join them in powering our economy, supporting 593,000 jobs and pouring more than $132.5 billion into our communities every year; and increasingly producing green energy that literally keeps lights on and businesses running. The Shapiro Administration is proud to support Pennsylvania agriculture and the innovative Pennsylvanians who power our daily lives and make us a national leader.”

Oregon Dairy has grown from a 1952 mom-and-pop dairy farm to today’s innovative dairy destination with locally sourced products featured on the annual PA Preferred Scooped: an Ice Cream Trail; a full-service supermarket, bakery, and restaurant; and community education and tourism hub fostering an understanding of sustainable food production — all on a working farm powered by solar panels, recycling, and a manure digester that turns waste into energy.

“Powering Pennsylvania is the perfect theme for the 2025 Farm Show, as agriculture and businesses like Oregon Dairy are truly the backbone of the Commonwealth’s economy,” said DCED Secretary Siger. “That’s why agriculture is one of the five key industries we’re focusing on in Pennsylvania’s economic development strategy. The Shapiro Administration knows it’s one of our greatest strengths, and we’re doubling down to support the growth and continued innovation of this vital industry.”

Every year, the PA Farm Show, Pennsylvania’s State Fair, brings half a million visitors to the capitol city for eight days of competition, and family fun with an educational twist. The 2025 event will run from Saturday, Jan. 4, through Saturday, Jan. 11, at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg.

The 2025 Farm Show will feature fan-favorites like the 1,000-pound butter sculpture, delicious Farm Show Food Court, thousands of competitive agricultural events, homegrown cooking demonstrations at the PA Preferred® Culinary Connection, and more than one million square-feet of hands-on agriculture education opportunities and chances to engage with the people who power Pennsylvania through agriculture.

To stay up to date on PA Farm Show news, visit farmshow.pa.gov or follow the Pennsylvania Farm Show on Facebook and Instagram.

Governor Josh Shapiro’s bipartisan 2024-25 budget invests in Pennsylvania’s national legacy as a leader in agriculture. The Governor’s new Economic Development Strategy recognizes agriculture, along with energy, manufacturing, robotics, and technology as key to Pennsylvania’s future economic success.

Learn more about Pennsylvania investments in agriculture at pa.gov/aginnovation.

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SDGs, Targets, and Indicators

1. SDG 2: Zero Hunger

   • Target 2.4: By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters, and that progressively improve land and soil quality.

2. SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy

   • Target 7.2: By 2030, increase substantially the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix.
   • Target 7.3: By 2030, double the global rate of improvement in energy efficiency.

3. SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

   • Target 8.2: Achieve higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation, including through a focus on high-value added and labor-intensive sectors.
   • Target 8.3: Promote development-oriented policies that support productive activities, decent job creation, entrepreneurship, creativity and innovation, and encourage the formalization and growth of micro-, small- and medium-sized enterprises, including through access to financial services.

4. SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production

   • Target 12.2: By 2030, achieve the sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
   • Target 12.5: By 2030, substantially reduce waste generation through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse.

Table: SDGs, Targets, and Indicators

Source: bctv.org