The Ohio Beef Expo is celebrating 25 years at the Ohio State Fairgrounds this weekend.

For Jim Rentz of Coldwater, Ohio, the first Oho Beef Expo Chairman, he’s not all that surprised how the Beef Expo has grown over the years.

“Well, I think the fact that one, the trade show was very important, very diversified, but then the sales themselves, the kind of breeding that goes in to these cattle were being accepted not only from breeders and commercial people from this state, but surrounding state, it was a lot of things that made it all work,” said Rentz. 

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A piece of mechanical celebrity was unveiled Friday by the National Biodiesel Board. A custom-built motorcycle, designed to run on a mixture of 80 percent diesel fuel and 20 percent renewable biodiesel was shown at the NBB headquarters in Jefferson City, Missouri.

“It’s a custom made Orange County Chopper diesel powered bike, custom made just for this bike,” said Donnell Rehagen, the chief operating officer of the NBB. “so from the rubber on up, it’s all custom.”

Completion of the bike is the subject of the Discovery Channel’s American Chopper television show Monday night and on April ninth, Rehagen told Brownfield during an interview.

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Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow says the “era of direct payments is over” for U.S. farmers. Speaking at a committee farm bill hearing Thursday, the Michigan Democrat said farm policy should focus on crop insurance and other tools that help producers who have suffered a loss on crops they actually grow. Stabenow told the committee strengthening and expanding crop insurance programs will be one of her priorities in the next farm bill saying, “It is absolutely imperative that we get these policies right.”

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