The Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners today voted to increase the agency’s monetary donation to Hunters Sharing the Harvest, ensuring that hunters can continue to donate venison to the state’s hungry without having to pay deer-processing costs. The board unanimously approved increasing to $55,000 the Game Commission’s 2019 donation to Hunters Sharing the Harvest. The […]

GAME COMMISSION RELEASES DEER HARVEST REPORT Overall harvest largest since 2004-05 license year. Pennsylvania hunters posted their highest overall deer harvest in 14 years when they took 374,690 deer during the state’s 2018-19 hunting seasons, which closed in January, the Pennsylvania Game Commission reported today. The 2018-19 deer harvest topped the previous year’s harvest of […]

CWD DISEASE MANAGEMENT AREA TO EXPAND INTO ELK RANGE Diseased animal detected at captive deer farm in Clearfield County will require DMA 3 expansion. A captive deer that has tested positive for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) will require Disease Management Area 3 (DMA 3) to expand into Pennsylvania’s elk range. The exact adjusted boundary of […]

Thanks to the generosity of the Country Store’s owner Tom Springman and the Hunters Sharing the Harvest venison charity, the Sullivan Co. Food Pantry recently received an additional consignment of over 1,500 lbs. of high-value processed venison products for upgrading holiday meals for families in need. Pictured with part of the trailer-load of meat en […]

At the start of the 27th hunting season, Russell Redding, Secretary, PA Dept of Agriculture; Rep. Eddie Day Pashinski, PA House of Representatives and Chair of the PA Sportsmen’s Caucus; John Plowman, Executive Director, Hunters Sharing the Harvest, and Jane Clements-Smith, Exec. Director Feeding PA, urged hunters who have extra tags to donate their excess […]

Eric Saunders, Executive Director of New Hope Ministries in Pennsylvania, holds one of the 5 lbs. bags of donated venison recently received at the Dillsburg Center of New Hope Ministries. Hunters Sharing the Harvest delivered the processed donated venison on October 31 through Butcher Block Meats in Biglerville, PA. New Hope Ministries serves the communities […]