PRINTER'S NO. 1188
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE RESOLUTION
No.
202
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY DINNIMAN, MARTIN, FONTANA, GREENLEAF, BREWSTER,
BROWNE, HUTCHINSON, VOGEL, BOSCOLA, FARNESE, MENSCH, AUMENT,
RAFFERTY, COSTA AND HUGHES, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, SEPTEMBER 20, 2017
A RESOLUTION
Designating the month of September 2017 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 584.1 million pounds
of mushrooms in the 2014-2015 growing season with an estimated
value of $554.4 million; and
WHEREAS, Pennsylvania's mushroom producers supplied 63% of
the white, brown and specialty varieties grown in the United
States in the 2014-2015 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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