Wednesday, May 6, 2026

Heimerl Farms raises livestock and crops, makes own feed and handles trucking.

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.

A Pennsylvania teen is starting his own beef enterprise, and has locked in a 10-year market at nearby Grove City College through Bon Appetit's Farm to Fork program.

Almost neighbors, two Ohio goat producers are capitalizing on a strong market and an animal that is practical to raise.

Three generations agree: Robotic milkers were a great addition to their western Pennsylvania dairy farm.

Ashland County farm champions pasture-raised livestock and gourmet poultry patties

The Stackhouse family has been managing the farm Humphrey Co. popcorn farm for more than 80 years.

Historic western Pa. farm fighting to survive, surrounded by longwall mining.

Only good planning for the Utica shale gas boom by Buckeye State leaders can avoid the 'natural resources curse' that was witnessed after the state's coal heyday.