July 23, 2014 at 2:10 p.m.
MyFarms teams up with Burrus
MyFarms has launched a new connection with Burrus Hybrids.
The seed company has announced it will introduce the first fully integrated field-level planting plan to help growers maximize yield via MyFarms.
The company is using the Data-Driven Farming System by MyFarms to combine proprietary product knowledge with the data farmers own and manage to improve crop production. MyFarms was created to make it safe and easy for family farms to increase yield by embracing practices such as site-specific hybrid placement and planting rates.
“We’re committed to delivering the best solutions for the quickly evolving needs of advanced crop producers,” said Tom Burrus, president of Burrus Hybrids. “The MyFarms platform was designed by fourth-generation corn farmers who bring hands-on production experience that only a farming heritage can provide. Together we have broken new ground that I expect other segments of agriculture will soon embrace.”
Burrus Hybrids was founded in 1935 and has a long history of providing seed to growers in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin.
MyFarms, now operating out of the former Klopfenstein Hardware building on East Main Street in Portland, is an independent technology company that makes it safe and easy to maximize yield by combining on-farm data with performance insight of leading seed, chemical and fertilizer suppliers.
Building permits
Permits for $615,600 in new construction were issued in June by the Jay/Portland Building and Planning office.
The largest project was a $180,000 house being constructed by Justin Huntsman at 4701 S. 475 East.
Other permits were issued to Richard and Betty Paxson for a $32,000 pole building at 7531 W. Ind. 18; Brad Osterholt for a $25,000 grain bin at 2387 E. 400 South; Howard Zorn for a $15,000 pole building at 2055 N. 700 East; Debra and Brad Roessner for a $40,000 pole building at 251 W. 400 North; Jeff and Jill Knisely for a $25,000 pole barn at 681 N. Ind. 167; Jeff LeMaster for a $22,000 pole building at 1663 E. 300 North.
Also to Virgil Gierhart for a $3,500 barn addition at 8051 N. 350 East; John Hemmelgarn for a $1,500 lean-to at 2207 E. 200 South; Renegade Custom Cycles for a $25,900 storage building at 730 S. Meridian St., Portland; Jeff and Diane Wendel for a $10,000 garage addition at 5268 E. 600 North; Steve Wendel for a $1,300 fence at 1003 W. North St., Portland; John Siegrest for a $150 fence at 723 W. Main St., Portland; Gwen Caldwell for a $500 fence at 133 E. Baker St., Portland.
Also to Jayland Properties for a $1,000 roof change at 1204 S. Hagins Ave.; Stickley’s Quilt Shop for a sign at 129 E. Water St., Portland; Jay County Pawnbrokers for a $5,000 sign at 1205 N. Meridian St.; Richard Louck for a $2,100 swimming pool at 7262 W. 600 South; Dalla Ingram for an $11,000 pool, deck and fence at 676 S. 700 East; Connie Emerick for an $18,000 addition at 309 E. Third St., Portland; David D. Wickey for a $35,000 addition at 6034 N. 150 West.
Also to John Murrell for a $60,000 addition at 977 S. Ind. 1; Chris Limbert for a $1,000 deck at 5487 S. 250 West; Pedro Sema-Vargas for a $250 deck at 113 E. Washington St., Portland; Jean Bantz for a $6,000 deck at 5169 S. 1000 West; J. Fred Landers for a $1,200 storage building at 1432 E. Ind. 26; Randall Heston for a $600 storage building at 633 N. 700 East; Richard Fifter for a $5,500 pole building at 211 E. 900 North; Jason Knapschafer for a $35,000 storage building at 3036 E. 200 North; Jerry Bias for an $8,000 storage building at 6058 E. 400 South; Wade Wallace for a $4,000 pole building at 7491 N. 650 West; Steven and Drea Brandt for a $14,000 pole building at 223 E. Walnut St., Portland; John Engle for a $24,000 garage at 1096 E. Ind. 26; and Wesley Moore for a $2,000 garage at 627 S. Wayne St., Portland.
Business occupancy permits were issued to Stickley’s Quilt Shop, 129 E. Water St., Portland, and The Trading Post, 5537 W. Ind. 26.
Restaurant fined
A Portland restaurant has been fined within the past year for repeat violations of child labor laws.
Portland’s Ponderosa Steakhouse received its third violation in a year of work break regulations involving minors. It received a $2,200 penalty for the violations and a $400 fine for hour violations involving two minors.
If a minor between the ages of 14-17 works six or more hours in a shift, an employer is required to give the minor one or two breaks totaling at least 30 minutes. Hour violations occur when a a minor works past the legally defined deadline for the minor’s age.
The labor department gives employers 30 days of being notified of a fine to protest violations.
Employers receive a warning for a the first violation, which expires one year after being issued.
FFA grant
The Fort Recovery FFA received a $2,500 grant last month thanks to a local resident.
Monsanto Fund donated the money after Fort Recovery resident Patricia Post applied on behalf of the chapter.
The America’s Farmers Grow Communities program gives farmers the chance to win money for a local nonprofit organization of their choosing. Posts’s application was chosen at random.
The nonprofit Monsanto Fund has invested more than $3.1 million in rural communities this year. The Monsanto Company is dedicated to strengthening the farm communities where farmers and employees live and work.
Promotion
Mercer Health recently promoted Mindy Kremer to marketing coordinator.
Before joining the organization, Kremer worked at HCF Management, Inc., where she held several positions including director of customer relations for Celina Manor and Briarwood Manor in Coldwater.
Bollenbacher changes
Bollenbacher and Associates, LLC of Portland recently announced changes to its staff.
The company promoted Hannah Hughes to accounting manager.
She’s worked for the company since August 2007.
Kalla Caffee, an accountant who started working for Bollenbacher and Associates in May 2008, was promoted to senior accountant.
The full-service certified public accounting firm also hired 2012 Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne graduate Brent Wiedemann in June as an accountant.
New leadership
Steve Schulte and Patty Williams have been chosen to lead Second National Bank’s new full-service office in Celina, which is scheduled to open in late August.
Schulte will manage the Celina office. He’s a former president of and treasurer of the Mercer County Chamber of Commerce, past steering committee member for Leadership Mercer County and a former member of the Small Business Development Center Advisory Committee and Economic Development Focus Group. Williams has been a personal banker and customer service representative, where her responsibilities include consumer mortgage lending and account opening. She has a Series 6 securities license, a National Mortgage license and life, disability and annuities license.
“Steve and Patty are experienced bankers with great people skills and knowledge of the community,” said John Swallow, Second National Bank president. “We’re excited to have them leading our new office in Celina.”
Second National Bank is part of the Park National Corporation family of community banks and has offices in Fort Recovery, Versailles, Arcanum and its headquarters in Greenville.
IMI expands
The recent acquisition of a competing mining operation will boost Greenfield-based Irving Materials Inc.’s aggregate mining business by about 10 percent, Arika Herron of The Greenfield Daily Reporter reported this week.
IMI division president Bob Haldrup said the company’s longtime relationship with Peru-based Rock Industries has made for a smooth transition since IMI closed the deal Friday. Terms were undisclosed.
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The seed company has announced it will introduce the first fully integrated field-level planting plan to help growers maximize yield via MyFarms.
The company is using the Data-Driven Farming System by MyFarms to combine proprietary product knowledge with the data farmers own and manage to improve crop production. MyFarms was created to make it safe and easy for family farms to increase yield by embracing practices such as site-specific hybrid placement and planting rates.
“We’re committed to delivering the best solutions for the quickly evolving needs of advanced crop producers,” said Tom Burrus, president of Burrus Hybrids. “The MyFarms platform was designed by fourth-generation corn farmers who bring hands-on production experience that only a farming heritage can provide. Together we have broken new ground that I expect other segments of agriculture will soon embrace.”
Burrus Hybrids was founded in 1935 and has a long history of providing seed to growers in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin.
MyFarms, now operating out of the former Klopfenstein Hardware building on East Main Street in Portland, is an independent technology company that makes it safe and easy to maximize yield by combining on-farm data with performance insight of leading seed, chemical and fertilizer suppliers.
Building permits
Permits for $615,600 in new construction were issued in June by the Jay/Portland Building and Planning office.
The largest project was a $180,000 house being constructed by Justin Huntsman at 4701 S. 475 East.
Other permits were issued to Richard and Betty Paxson for a $32,000 pole building at 7531 W. Ind. 18; Brad Osterholt for a $25,000 grain bin at 2387 E. 400 South; Howard Zorn for a $15,000 pole building at 2055 N. 700 East; Debra and Brad Roessner for a $40,000 pole building at 251 W. 400 North; Jeff and Jill Knisely for a $25,000 pole barn at 681 N. Ind. 167; Jeff LeMaster for a $22,000 pole building at 1663 E. 300 North.
Also to Virgil Gierhart for a $3,500 barn addition at 8051 N. 350 East; John Hemmelgarn for a $1,500 lean-to at 2207 E. 200 South; Renegade Custom Cycles for a $25,900 storage building at 730 S. Meridian St., Portland; Jeff and Diane Wendel for a $10,000 garage addition at 5268 E. 600 North; Steve Wendel for a $1,300 fence at 1003 W. North St., Portland; John Siegrest for a $150 fence at 723 W. Main St., Portland; Gwen Caldwell for a $500 fence at 133 E. Baker St., Portland.
Also to Jayland Properties for a $1,000 roof change at 1204 S. Hagins Ave.; Stickley’s Quilt Shop for a sign at 129 E. Water St., Portland; Jay County Pawnbrokers for a $5,000 sign at 1205 N. Meridian St.; Richard Louck for a $2,100 swimming pool at 7262 W. 600 South; Dalla Ingram for an $11,000 pool, deck and fence at 676 S. 700 East; Connie Emerick for an $18,000 addition at 309 E. Third St., Portland; David D. Wickey for a $35,000 addition at 6034 N. 150 West.
Also to John Murrell for a $60,000 addition at 977 S. Ind. 1; Chris Limbert for a $1,000 deck at 5487 S. 250 West; Pedro Sema-Vargas for a $250 deck at 113 E. Washington St., Portland; Jean Bantz for a $6,000 deck at 5169 S. 1000 West; J. Fred Landers for a $1,200 storage building at 1432 E. Ind. 26; Randall Heston for a $600 storage building at 633 N. 700 East; Richard Fifter for a $5,500 pole building at 211 E. 900 North; Jason Knapschafer for a $35,000 storage building at 3036 E. 200 North; Jerry Bias for an $8,000 storage building at 6058 E. 400 South; Wade Wallace for a $4,000 pole building at 7491 N. 650 West; Steven and Drea Brandt for a $14,000 pole building at 223 E. Walnut St., Portland; John Engle for a $24,000 garage at 1096 E. Ind. 26; and Wesley Moore for a $2,000 garage at 627 S. Wayne St., Portland.
Business occupancy permits were issued to Stickley’s Quilt Shop, 129 E. Water St., Portland, and The Trading Post, 5537 W. Ind. 26.
Restaurant fined
A Portland restaurant has been fined within the past year for repeat violations of child labor laws.
Portland’s Ponderosa Steakhouse received its third violation in a year of work break regulations involving minors. It received a $2,200 penalty for the violations and a $400 fine for hour violations involving two minors.
If a minor between the ages of 14-17 works six or more hours in a shift, an employer is required to give the minor one or two breaks totaling at least 30 minutes. Hour violations occur when a a minor works past the legally defined deadline for the minor’s age.
The labor department gives employers 30 days of being notified of a fine to protest violations.
Employers receive a warning for a the first violation, which expires one year after being issued.
FFA grant
The Fort Recovery FFA received a $2,500 grant last month thanks to a local resident.
Monsanto Fund donated the money after Fort Recovery resident Patricia Post applied on behalf of the chapter.
The America’s Farmers Grow Communities program gives farmers the chance to win money for a local nonprofit organization of their choosing. Posts’s application was chosen at random.
The nonprofit Monsanto Fund has invested more than $3.1 million in rural communities this year. The Monsanto Company is dedicated to strengthening the farm communities where farmers and employees live and work.
Promotion
Mercer Health recently promoted Mindy Kremer to marketing coordinator.
Before joining the organization, Kremer worked at HCF Management, Inc., where she held several positions including director of customer relations for Celina Manor and Briarwood Manor in Coldwater.
Bollenbacher changes
Bollenbacher and Associates, LLC of Portland recently announced changes to its staff.
The company promoted Hannah Hughes to accounting manager.
She’s worked for the company since August 2007.
Kalla Caffee, an accountant who started working for Bollenbacher and Associates in May 2008, was promoted to senior accountant.
The full-service certified public accounting firm also hired 2012 Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne graduate Brent Wiedemann in June as an accountant.
New leadership
Steve Schulte and Patty Williams have been chosen to lead Second National Bank’s new full-service office in Celina, which is scheduled to open in late August.
Schulte will manage the Celina office. He’s a former president of and treasurer of the Mercer County Chamber of Commerce, past steering committee member for Leadership Mercer County and a former member of the Small Business Development Center Advisory Committee and Economic Development Focus Group. Williams has been a personal banker and customer service representative, where her responsibilities include consumer mortgage lending and account opening. She has a Series 6 securities license, a National Mortgage license and life, disability and annuities license.
“Steve and Patty are experienced bankers with great people skills and knowledge of the community,” said John Swallow, Second National Bank president. “We’re excited to have them leading our new office in Celina.”
Second National Bank is part of the Park National Corporation family of community banks and has offices in Fort Recovery, Versailles, Arcanum and its headquarters in Greenville.
IMI expands
The recent acquisition of a competing mining operation will boost Greenfield-based Irving Materials Inc.’s aggregate mining business by about 10 percent, Arika Herron of The Greenfield Daily Reporter reported this week.
IMI division president Bob Haldrup said the company’s longtime relationship with Peru-based Rock Industries has made for a smooth transition since IMI closed the deal Friday. Terms were undisclosed.
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