Farmers Making Their Plans for Spring from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
"Last year, Pennsylvania farmers said they wound up having a pretty good year and most are sticking to what worked. Carolyn Beinlich, one of the owners of Triple B Farms in Forward, where they grow both fruits and vegetables, said last year was dry early in the season, but they got through with irrigation, even having to fill one of their irrigation ponds with municipal water. She said the farm was less profitable because they kept their prices steady from 2011, but costs rose because they had to pay for the water to irrigate the crops."