date and schedule

Date:  Monday February 17, 2025
Location:  Biglerville High School Auditorium

Meeting Location

Upper Adams School District, Biglerville High School

Apple Juice And Donuts

Knouse Foods, Adams County Fruit Growers Association

Educational Exhibitors

Adams County Ag Innovations Initiative    PA Department of Agriculture   PA Office of Rural Health

     Penn State Extension    Penn State Extension Pesticide Education Program      Keystone Health

Door Prize Sponsors

Adams County Nursery   Adams County Auto Supply    Boyer Nurseries & Orchards   

Franklin Fence Growmark FS  Horizon Farm Credit

Nichino Noble Software Solutions   

Schaeffer’s Specialized Lubricants    

Thank you to our 2025 Sponsors! They support the educational events for our Adams Country Fruit Growers!

Join us at Biglerville High School for the annual Commercial Tree Fruit School with Penn State Extension scientists and others with knowledge and news that impacts our industry.  Earn category and core credits for your pesticide applicator license.  The cost of the meeting includes lunch.  There are also concurrent sessions on Pesticide Safety and an afternoon of Spanish sessions in the school library. 

Schedule:  Join us for donuts and apple juice provided by Knouse Foods and the ACFGA at 7:30a.m. The meeting begins at 7:55 a.m., includes lunch at 11:45 a.m. Our annual door prize giveaway begins at 3:15p.m. The day includes industry show and tell from our sponsors, updates from all of the Fruit Research and Extension Center scientists, several Spanish sessions, new respirator fit testing 9:00a.m.-3:00p.m. and respirator fit training 12:00p.m.

2025 Presidents’ Day Agenda & Spanish Program Agenda

We will have the usual warm lunch in the cafeteria in two shifts.

If you would like to be a sponsor for 2025 please contact us at: adamscountyfruitgrowers@gmail.com for more information.

2025 Registration Form

Cost of attendance is $30 for a member and $40 for non-members. Note that employees of a member can attend at the member rate. The price includes lunch.


thank you to our speakers and sponsors

This event could not be done so well without our many generous sponsors.  Check out the full list of all of the companies and organizations that support educating our grower community. 

2025 Speakers, Educational Exhibitors and Sponsors