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Beaver County farmer convicted of killing birds By Farm and Dairy Staff
Ohio State breaks ground on Multispecies Animal Learning Center By Liz Partsch
Farm and Dairy Staff Writer
COLUMBUS — Ohio State University celebrated the groundbreaking of its new Multispecies Animal Learning Center on Jan. 30, dedicated to advancing the future of livestock and agriculture education for the next generation. On a windy January morning, faculty and project partners plunged shovels into a dirt patch in front of the Waterman Dairy Center after a ceremony thanking investors and discussing the future of OSU’s College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Sciences MALC. Once built, the $53 million facility will provide education and workforce development for essential STEM fields and careers in animal sciences, engineering, food science and human nutrition and health. “This is a really unique facility because there’s 261 acres of food, ag and environmental laboratories in the heart of the 14th largest city. You just don’t see that kind of unique facility,” said Cathann Kress, vice president and dean of the CFAES at OSU. “To have it in this close of a proximity to where our students and our researchers are means we can do incredible work here.” A new future. The new facility is part of the broader project to modernize the university’s agricultural education programs via new infrastruc-
ABOVE: (From left to right) Graham Cochran, Matt Canterna, Lori Gillett, Devin Fuhrman, Dennis Summers, Don Jones, Cathann Kress, Ted Carter, Elizabeth Harsh, Pasha Lyvers Peffer, Elizabeth Lott and Alvaro Garcia Guerra dig up dirt in celebration of the new facility at OSU’s Waterman campus in Columbus. (Liz Partsch photo)
ture on its Waterman property, located on the west side of the Columbus campus. OSU opened the Kunz-Brundige Franklin County Extension Building in 2019, where students and adults can participate in a host of programs, including the master gardener program, as well as work in The Garden of Hope, a vegetable garden for cancer survivors where participants learn the benefits of a plant-based diet. In 2022, OSU opened its second facility as part of the upgrades, the Controlled Environment Food Production Research Complex. The complex provides a platform for research in crop science, entomology, plant pathology, food science and a host of other fields. According to Kress, the research facility has already secured $10 million in research funding. The facility is also home to the global space platform StarLab’s first-ever science park where scientists will conduct space agriculture research.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — A Beaver County farmer and his employee were found guilty last month of unlawfully killing migratory birds. Robert Yost, 52, of New Galilee, Pennsylvania, and his employee, Jake Reese, 27, of Enon Valley, Pennsylvania, were accused of using corn laced with a banned pesticide to kill geese and other birds on leased farmland. U.S. District Judge W. Scott Hardy returned his verdict Jan. 24, finding Yost and Reese were responsible for killing 17 Canada geese, 10 redwinged blackbirds and one mallard duck. The pair were also convicted of unlawful use of a registered use pesticide and conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States. “The defendants’ indiscriminate criminal conduct also put the safety and health of the farm’s neighbors — including small children and a man suffering from Alzheimer’s disease — at risk,” said U.S. Attorney Eric Olshan, in a statement. The case. The case stems from an incident in June 2020 when dead birds were found in a soybean field leased by Yost, who operates Yost Farms. In addition to farming more than 1,200 acres of corn and soybeans, he leased the 8-10 acre field from a family in New Beaver Borough, in Lawrence County. Federal prosecutors said the issues began earlier that month when the landowner reported one of Yost’s employees shot a gun toward the wetland abutting the field to scare the geese. Next, the landowner found foothold traps along the wetland area and reported it to the Pennsylvania Game Commission. The landowner testified that they were concerned about the gunshots and traps as they often walked on the farm property, as did a family member with Alzheimer’s disease. A game warden who investigated the scene testified at trial that there was a 100-yard-long trail of corn with dead birds on or beside it. Testing from the state animal diagnostic laboratory showed the geese died of carbofuran toxicity. The corn also tested positive for carbofuran, a restricted-use pesticide declared unsafe by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2009. (Continued on Page A7)
East Palestine leaders discuss rebranding By Liz Partsch
Farm and Dairy Staff Writer
EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Pride. Tradition. Progress. That is the village of East Palestine’s new motto for the world, one year after a Norfolk Southern train derailed, causing a fire and chemical spill that still has some people uncomfortable with returning home. The new motto and logo were unveiled at a press event on Feb. 2 at the East Palestine Community Center where village leaders discussed updates on the derailment clean-up, plans to bring in new businesses and how to remove the stigma of the “derailment town.” Mayor Trent Conaway said he doesn’t want to forget the events of last year but wants to move forward and take control of the narrative. “We won’t allow others to use our community for their agenda,” he said. “We believe in East Palestine as a community that is strong. Many others believe in us, too. Rebranding. According to EPA statistics, 42.8 million gallons of water have been transferred offsite, 176,487 tons of waste soil have been removed, 5,200 feet of impacted waterways have been flushed, 1,221
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