It was halfway through the year 2000. People were drinking up their last cases of bottled water and by then were tired of the endless supply of beanie weenies once highly regarded in preparation for ...

The Produce Auction in Oxford, Chester County, is the earliest business for farmers to sell their wares and get a jump on the new year until other produce auctions open later in the spring. Amish and ...

OXFORD — In box trucks and horse-drawn wagons, Amish farmers and others carry corrugated crates of bright vegetables and fruits to an open-sided auction house in Oxford, Chester County, to meet buyers ...

ST. CHARLES — Judy and Wyatt Goldsmith came to the Country Fresh Produce Auction to buy petunias to plant outside their home south of St. Charles. "We come here to try to get a bargain," she said. She ...

BREMEN, Ohio (AP) — John Wilson Jr. is selling a handful of summer squash to the highest bidder at the Bremen Farmers’ Auction. Standing on a railed platform mounted on four wheels, Wilson points, ...

Three auctions in one week. My wife Judy and I travelled to rural Cashton, near Reedstown and outside of Ironton, on the Amish auction circuit. The series of consignment sales featured quilts, ...

Some Amish farmers in Ohio and Pennsylvania have switched from grain and livestock to raising vegetables, such as tomatoes, onions, peppers and sweet corn. This move has helped them receive a steady ...

Amish farmers were in the house, as if one didn't notice forty bearded men in straw hats roaming the aisles of the produce section. And if anyone stopped in front of the root vegetables in Heinen's ...