Established in 1939, Farmer's Pride has nearly 600 employees and processes 130,000 chickens daily, marketing in 22 states throughout the Eastern United States. We're doing more in Ireland than visiting a powerful trading partner, technology leader and ally. To promote Pennsylvania hardwood exports and to further trading relationships between Ireland and Pennsylvania, Gov. Ridge and Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Samuel E. Hayes Jr. visited Newlands Garden Centre, an outlet for the hardwood products of True Temper Hardware, based in Camp Hill, Cumberland County, which manufactures handles for wheelbarrows and lawn tools. It's a place where family, traditions and a respect for our heritage can be seen in everything we grow, everything we produce. And nowhere in the United States is there a greater resource of hardwood than in the forests of Pennsylvania.
Hardwoods are Pennsylvania's most renewable resource.
Under its newly implemented sustainable forestry policy, Pennsylvania is growing two trees for every one harvested. Donald McDonald, managing director of True Temper Ltd., based in Dublin, said Pennsylvania should be commended for becoming the first state in the nation to be certified by the independent Forest Stewardship Council. It's a tribute to the Governor that Pennsylvania has become the first state in the United States to attain this certification. Customers in the United Kingdom and Ireland only use hardwood grown from sustainable sources, and Pennsylvania is the primary provider of wood that meets these standards of excellence. Shamus Murdock, owner of Murdock Hardwoods Industries Ltd., imports wood for moldings and flooring and other uses.