Ohioan wins Distinguished Young Holstein Breeder award

By Rachel Wagoner rachel@farmanddairy.com

It’s always been Holsteins for Ty Etgen. Even as he was growing up as a kid from town working on his friend’s dairy farms around Wapakoneta, Ohio. Even as he quit football in high school to dive deeper into learning the ropes of running a dairy.

It was still Holsteins for Etgen even after her met and fell in love with a girl who grew up milking and showing Ayrshires, and then built a life on her family’s farm.

That devotion to the industry and to the breed paid off for the western Ohio native, who was recently recognized by Holstein Association USA as its 2023 Distinguished Young Holstein Breeder.

Etgen, 33, of Harrod, Ohio, received the award June 25 during the National Holstein Convention, in Lexington, Kentucky. Etgen is the first Ohioan to win this award. Award. The Distinguished Young Holstein Breeder award recognizes significant accomplishments of registered Holstein breeders between the ages of 21 and 40 for their commitment to preserving the dairy industry and for achieving excellence in their daily lives.

Etgen’s herd of 100 registered Holsteins, Etgen-Way, is milked twice a day and has a rolling herd average of 23,044 pounds of milk, with a 4% fat test and a 3.1% protein test, according to the association.

By Rachel Wagoner rachel@farmanddairy.com

WASHINGTON, Pa. — No one likes methane leaks. They’re bad for the environment, with methane emissions contributing significantly to anthropogenic climate change and polluting the air and water. Leaks are also costly for the oil and gas industry, which loses a marketable product every time methane leaks into the atmosphere.

So, in order to be sustainable, both financially and environmentally, many companies are pledging to reduce leaks and other emissions.

One of those companies is Diversified Energy, the largest owner of oil and gas wells in the country and a major player in the region’s oil and gas industry. The company made its bones buying decades old marginal wells and keeping them productive, and has faced criticism for this business model.

Diversified Energy reported in its latest corporate sustainability report that it inspected 100% of its Appalachian wells for leaks last year.

That was no small feat as the company owns more than 50,000 wells in the region, mostly older, conventional wells . That includes more than 22,000 wells in Pennsylvania, 23,000 in West

“In 2022, we found we were 90% tight,” Espenan said. “In successive surveys, we got to 95% tight.”

Why. Diversified is now expanding its efforts to

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“The whole list of Distinguished Young Holstein Breeders is impressive, and to be on that list, it means a lot

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