Helluva story, folks 👇👇

HARRISBURG, Pa. (The Associated Press) _ Norfolk Southern has pledged several million dollars to cover the cost of the response and recovery in Pennsylvania after last month's derailment of a train carrying toxic chemicals just across the border in Ohio, Gov. Josh Shapiro said Monday.

Tucked into the governor's daily East Palestine briefing is info about a meeting the Ohio Dept of Ag is having with local farmers this Thursday at 2 p.m. at Emmanuel Lutheran Church Education Building in Salem, Ohio. So if you want to talk directly to ODA, here's your chance.

A *sweet* little story about a young family that makes maple syrup together in Geauga County, Ohio. (this is just the kind of wholesome, palate cleanser type story I needed to cover after doom and gloom train derailment stuff for a month straight) farmanddairy.com/news/making-ma…

More than a month after the East Palestine train derailment and controlled burn of chemicals, the U.S. EPA said at a meeting with Ohio farmers that it's going to test for dioxins around the area. Last week EPA said it was going to force Norfolk Southern to test for dioxins.

17 tons of donated feed, supplies, hay and straw arrived from Indiana at Kaylee Ball's farm outside Salem Ohio this afternoon. Two women from Indianapolis had been following the East Palestine derailment story and wanted to help people with animals who have been impacted.

BREAKING: Preliminary soil test results from farms in Pennsylvania show no signs of contamination from the Norfolk Southern train derailment or subsequent vinyl chloride burnoff, according to the DEP and EPA. farmanddairy.com/news/test-resu…

Very good news for farmers living around the East Palestine train derailment. Preliminary soil test results show no contamination from the vinyl chloride vent & burn. No VOCs and expected levels of dioxin for a rural area farmanddairy.com/news/test-resu…

No surprise - this is a hell of a story. If you haven’t read it yet, do it.

Heard this story on the radio this morning. It is lovely, particularly the ending. So so much wisdom coming from teenage drama kids (because of course)

Anyway, here's my latest. It's a story I've been working on for 6+ months. The story of Dave McCallion's leaking well and why no one can or will do anything to fix it. farmanddairy.com/news/failure-b…

This has been a heckuva project for Rachel, and important, important work.

Thanks to Erin Gottsacker with The Ohio Newsroom for taking an interest in my story on how nothing is being done about a lot of oil leaky oil and gas wells in Ohio. Click the link below to listen to me talk. ideastream.org/2023-04-18/gas…

It’s been a year since the first case of highly pathogenic avian influenza was detected in domestic poultry in PA. Since then, more than 4.6 million birds have been killed as a result. Learn more about the impact of the bird flu in PA and nationwide. farmanddairy.com/news/bird-flu-…

East Palestine Train Derailment update: The Pennsylvania DEP put out an interactive map so you can see everywhere they sampled soil and water for contaminants. Still no soil or groundwater contamination shown from derailment. experience.arcgis.com/experience/685…

I had a reader call me Thursday evening to tell me he connected with this story and how the hard work ethic was passed down through the generations. He said "I saw your number at the end of the story and had to call." I said, that's what it's there for. farmanddairy.com/news/simmons-f…

To some, Dave Brandt was the guy in the "it ain't much but its honest work" meme. Others knew him as a pioneer in regenerative ag. To his family, he was the grandfather who would bring a piglet to his grandson's career day at school. farmanddairy.com/news/ohio-no-t…

Happy Fourth - from Puck, Pili and little Bette. 😊

“You shall not pass.” Happy inter(national) dog day from Finnick and the rest of the Blue hEron Farms crew. 🐾🥰