SF GATE / AP: Icy temperatures were largely blamed for a dip in attendance at this year’s Pennsylvania Farm Show, which closed Saturday, but the many thousands of hardy souls who made the trip enjoyed the annual celebration of farm life and certainly didn’t go away hungry…
Overall attendance at the 98th annual show was about 17 percent lower than the record 585,000 estimated to have attended last year’s show, said spokeswoman Nicole Bucher.
Bucher speculated that this week’s unusually harsh cold spell likely discouraged many prospective visitors. She cited an uptick in the daily census of parked cars since temperatures began to warm Thursday as evidence that weather is always an important factor… (more)
