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Heimerl Farms: Some history
JOHNSTOWN, Ohio — It’s taken a few years for Heimerl Farms to get where it is today. The farm was started about 1950 when Don and Marjorie Heimerl began raising beef cattle as a second job to his construction business. The elder Heimerls raised about 60 head of purebred Herefords. Their son, Jim, took livestock
USDA puts $3 billion into ‘deeply flawed’ Climate Smart Commodities program
Even at first glance, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s recently announced $3 billion Partnerships for Climate-Smart Commodities sounds like doublespeak.
Poultry production may be ramping up
Broiler growers in the United States reportedly placed 166 million chicks for meat production, which was also up by 3 percent from November 2013.
Get your chimney capped soon to avoid swifts
To avoid having chimney swifts invade your home this spring, get your chimney capped — as soon as possible. Swifts usually return in mid-April, but precise arrival dates are tied to weather, particularly temperature, which determines the activity of flying insects. Swifts eat flying insects exclusively. You can check their northward progress at www.chimneyswifts.org. Chimney
Clean Ohio Fund: Farmland easements wait begins
The Office of Farmland Preservation within the Ohio Department of Agriculture is now plowing through more than 400 applications from landowners interested in selling development rights from their farms.
S&S Equipment raffling off limited edition Bush Hog cutter for breast cancer
S&S Equipment owner Bud Smith is raffling off a limited edition pink BH216 cutter by Brush Hog with 100% of proceeds going to the American Cancer Society.
Market correction holds, with bullish news
Marlin Clark breaks down the USDA supply and demand report that came and went last week, and how changes in the numbers could affect the trading.
Give me that merit badge, give me that badge
If I have learned anything from my years as a Scout Parent — first with Cub Scouts (cute) and then Boy Scouts (cute, but gangly and sometimes smell funny) — it is that all the wrong people are earning badges around here. If you are a scout parent you soon learn that the boys earn
Shale well drilling still strong in Ohio and Pa.
There are 10,817 active horizontal wells in Pennsylvania and 2,081 deep horizontal wells producing in the Utica or Point Pleasant shale plays in Ohio.
Cap and trade: Show me the money
One of the basic rules of my incredibly successful one-dog, two-ink pen operation is that if the government wants to give some of my tax money back, I take it. Depreciation? Thank you. Double declining balance, three-backflips depreciation? Thank you very much. That simple principle, however, was trampled July 22 when a Senate Ag Committee
