A Columbiana farm is feeling the fallout from the toxic train derailment in East Palestine.
“I mean it’s rocked our community,” said Steve Montgomery, Executive Director of Lamppost Farm. “The train derailment has caused everybody to wonder you know what’s the outcomes and nobody knows for sure what will happen down the road.”“Thankfully we’re upwind and upstream from the derailment which is good for us, and I think it puts me at ease as far as the safety of our product,” Montgomery said.
“I just talked to a friend that I was gonna buy cattle from who has cattle about 3 and a half miles from the derailment site and he’s canceling butcher dates out of fear of not wanting to produce provide a product for his customers and I mean that’s a ripple effect all around,” Montgomery explained. “I can’t buy his cattle from him now because of that. We won’t be able to produce that for our customers.
“When we get hit like this it hurts and we find ourselves in a hole,” he admitted. “I had a call from somebody in Florida asking can I buy product or meat or whatever you grow from Ohio so it’s a national question about the viability of what we’re trying to do.” “What happened to us and our neighbors is tragic yes and there are a lot of people really struggling but we’re a community, a strong community and that’s important to keep remembering,” he said.
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