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More crush capacity could be boon for Ohio soybean producers
SALEM, Ohio — Ohio’s soybean processing capacity is growing, riding a wave of domestic interest in renewable fuels. The state’s crush capacity could grow as much as 35% in the next few years. Global food processing giant Cargill recently brought its expanded crush plant in Sidney online, nearly doubling the capacity of the old plant, and French company Louis Dreyfus announced plans to build a new crush plant in Upper Sandusky. That’s good news for Ohio farmers, who in the short term could see better prices at local elevators that will be competing for feedstock for their customers, said Steve Reinhard, vice chair of the United Soybean Board. In the long term, the addition of domestic markets for the commodity could add resilience to an industry that relies heavily on exports. “When we talk about adding value to soybeans, whatever we can do locally is going to be more beneficial,” said Reinhard, who is also a farmer in Bucyrus, Ohio. Growing and upgrading. Cargill held a tour Nov. 2, attended by Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, to celebrate the opening of its expanded and updated soybean processing plant in Sidney, Ohio, in Shelby County. The new facility, which came online in September, can process 60 million bushels a year. The new plant was built adjacent to the existing plant which opened in 1978 and will be decommissioned. Justin Rismiller, a Cargill spokesman, told Farm and Dairy that the decision to upgrade and expand soy processing capacity in Ohio was part of the company’s overall strategy to modernize and expand its U.S. oilseed plants. “When we looked around at our fleet, Sidney has been a really strong
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ALLIANCE, Ohio — The existence of Suffolk Punch horses reflects the spirit of the rural landscape. That’s what makes Blue Ridge Farmstead, a farm in Alliance where eight Suffolk Punch horses make their home, seem like a needle in a haystack. Suffolk Punch horses originated in a county called Suffolk in East Anglia, an eastern region of England, roughly 500 years ago. The draft horses were bred for farmers by farmers, lovingly labeled as “punch”, then a slang term for people who were short and stout. Punches are stocky and formidable, with thick, arching necks and incredibly well-muscled shoulders that are made for pulling plows, carts and shaping the ground beneath them. They are
bred to be docile, powerful and have the stamina to work from sunup to sundown with the longevity to do it again and again. Horses that once represented the foundation of agricultural life are now nearly relics of the past. Only about 600 Suffolk Punch horses are registered across the U.S., with only 200 registered in England according to The Livestock Conservancy. By way of comparison, the Percheron Horse Association of America estimates that about 10,000 Percheron draft horses are registered every single year. The Rare Breeds Survival Trust considers the Suffolk Punch horse breed to be critically endangered. Keeping the breed alive. When the Nidy family purchased and began raising Punch horses, they didn’t know they were taking on
The Nidys’ horses are often used on the farm in place of tractors, plowing and cultivating gardens. BELOW: Jen Nidy pets Daisy, a Suffolk Punch horse, on the farm she runs with her husband, Andrew. (Hayley Shasteen photos)
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Pennsylvania partners with natural gas driller on air and water monitoring amid new regulatory push By Michael Rubinkam Associated Press
The state of Pennsylvania will work with a major natural gas producer to collect in-depth data on air emissions and water quality at well sites, enhance public disclosure of drilling chemicals and expand buffer zones, the governor announced Nov. 2, touting the collaboration as the first of its kind.
CNX Resources Corp., based in Canonsburg, will partner with the state Department of Environmental Protection on intensive environmental monitoring at two future well sites throughout all stages of the drilling and fracking process — a data-collection exercise that could be used to drive future policy changes, according to Gov. Josh Shapiro. The announcement comes amid ongoing concerns about the potential environmental
and health effects of fracking, and more than three years after a grand jury concluded that state regulators had failed to properly oversee the state’s huge gas-drilling industry. “Pennsylvanians want us to do everything we can to help keep them and their families safe,” Shapiro said Nov. 2 at a news conference at a CNX well pad in Washington County, in (Continued on Page A3)
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