PRINTER'S NO. 1936
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
412
Session of
2018
INTRODUCED BY DINNIMAN, ARGALL, GREENLEAF, BROWNE, BLAKE,
MARTIN, RAFFERTY, EICHELBERGER, BREWSTER, RESCHENTHALER,
TARTAGLIONE, SABATINA AND SCHWANK, JUNE 22, 2018
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, JUNE 22, 2018
A RESOLUTION
Designating the month of September 2018 as "Mushroom Month" in
Pennsylvania.
WHEREAS, American mushroom farming began on a farm in Chester
County, now recognized as the "Mushroom Capital of the World";
and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania has a growing and productive mushroom
agribusiness in many parts of this Commonwealth; and
WHEREAS, Thanks to its 68 mushroom farms, Pennsylvania leads
the nation in mushroom production; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania growers produced 577 million pounds of
mushrooms in the last growing season with an estimated value of
$560 million; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania's mushroom producers supplied 65% of
the white, brown and specialty varieties grown in the United
States in the 2016-2017 growing season; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania's mushroom farms are family owned and
operated, some for as many as four generations; and
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