EDINBURG, Pa. — A Pulaski Township beef producer is still going round and round with Penn Power after a guide wire reportedly came down and a total of 10 cattle were electrocuted July 9 on Garner Road in Edinburg, Pa.. Laird Whiting and his wife Joyce are still in dismay at what happened at their [...]
Aug. 3, 2012 Sale Total: $130,914.74 Total Lots: 187 STEERS Number of Market Lots: 18 Average: $1,951.40 with champions; $1,751.00 without Number of carcass lots: 1 Average: $1,310.40 (no champions) Grand champion: Chance Rains Bid: $3.10/pound Weight: 1,295 pounds Buyer: Atwell & Perrine Excavating, McDowell Implement, Coolspring Corn Maze Reserve champion: Carson Ligo Bid: $2.40/pound [...]
While permits are still being sought in the Utica shale region, the real story may be in the number of wells waiting to be fracked.
One-third of the corn and soybean crops in the Midwest are projected to have poor yields this harvest due to the drought.
ENON VALLEY, Pa. — For the first time in more than 40 years, Howard Leslie won’t be returning to the classroom in the fall. While, he could be riding around in a golf cart hitting golf balls, he has a distinctly different approach to taking it easy. He is spending his summer milking cows. After [...]
A Carroll County farm wins an injunction against Chesapeake.
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Senate Majority Leader Dominic Pileggi (R-9) and Senate Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee Chairman Elder Vogel (R-47) announced July 9 that Governor Tom Corbett has signed a new law exempting family farms from the inheritance tax and the realty transfer tax. Continuing the farming tradition “This legislation is about furthering opportunity in [...]
The temperatures soared into the 90′s during the week of the Trumbull County Fair and with the record temperatures came record high prices for steers, lambs and hogs.
WARREN, Ohio — A lawsuit filed by a Kinsman, Ohio, couple against North Coast Energy and Enervest Operating LLC could be expanded as class action on behalf of at least 40 other landowners. Unlawfully notarized? Kenneth and Martha Cole, of Kinsman, filed the lawsuit in Trumbull County Common Pleas Court June 18. According to the lawsuit, [...]
Interest in the Marcellus and Utica shale does not appear to be waning in Ohio or Pennsylvania, according to the permits sought in each state.
The Feichters’ lease had called for a 160-acre pooling unit when they signed it in 2006.
SALEM, Ohio — With 30 years experience navigating the minefields of mineral rights and real estate, Monroe County attorney Richard A. Yoss often advises his clients not sell the mineral rights for any reason. But he does often suggest families transfer those mineral rights to another vehicle. Yoss counsels some clients to create a limited [...]
There are those who say selling your mineral rights can be a good thing, depending on your situation
Take a ride in eastern Ohio and it is evident the landscape is changing. In some areas, driveways for gas well sites are being constructed, well pads are being poured and drilling is commencing, all for the much-touted energy boom.
Doug Woolf has expanded the farm’s crops, and now Morning Dew Orchards produces 33 varieties of apples, many of which commercial orchards don’t grow anymore.
CARROLLTON, Ohio — A Carroll County family farm has filed a $1 million lawsuit against Chesapeake Exploration and is seeking a temporary restraining order and injunction against the company. Robert, Carolyn, James L. and Bruce R. Starkey, all of Mechanicstown, filed the lawsuit June 11 against Patriot Energy, Buckeye Oil Products, Bass Energy and Chesapeake [...]
MERCER, Pa. — Grab a bowl of popcorn and turn on the television. There is a new reality series in the making, but it’s not your typical love story kind or survival of the fittest. No, it’s about a different type of love affair. It’s about the love of the soil, wondering what the weather [...]
ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — A group of Belmont County landowners claim Oxford Oil Company may be over-stretching a clause in their gas leases to extend the term of the leases without production, according to a lawsuit filed in Belmont County. The situation Fourteen Belmont County landowners have filed a lawsuit against Oxford Oil Company in [...]
Historic western Pa. farm fighting to survive, surrounded by longwall mining.
The photo is a shot of Washington County, Pennsylvania. A compressor station that services several Marcellus shale wells is located near the rear of some farms.
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