Heather Hetterick
Heather Hetterick has been promoting agriculture from an early age. From her 4-H and FFA days to present, sharing the ag story has been important to Heather.
Her current responsibilities include reporting for the Ohio Ag Net, filling in for Dale Minyo and sales for the radio network. She is also involved with sales for Ohio’s Country Journal.
She is a graduate of the Ohio State University, where she was named one of the Top 10 Seniors in the College of Food, Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. After college Heather was the Director of Marketing & Education for the Ohio Pork Producers Council. She then went on to work for Clear Channel Radio and Time Warner Cable before joining the Ohio Ag Net.
Heather also blogs about food, frugality and freebies at http://www.heathershelpings.com. She resides in Shelby County, near Botkins, with her husband Zach.
Men and agriculture move into Pinterest
By Heather Hetterick First it was Facebook, then Twitter. Now, Pinterest is latest online social media craze. I was an early adopter of Pinterest. Since I love food and decorating, it was an online heaven to me. Pinterest is a virtual pinboard. It let’s you organize and share photos, videos, images or articles you find [...]
Did HSUS start animal rights World War II?
By Heather Hetterick It was just starting to appear that everyone was, well, not exactly getting along, but at least cooperating with each other and finding some common ground. After all, Issue 2 was behind us and that war between Humane Society of the United States and the agriculture industry in Ohio ended somewhat peacefully with [...]
American Farmer song by Steve Azar benefits FFA
It’s neat when people come up with creative ways to raise money. This one is pretty good in my book! While at charity auction, the folks at Swenson Investments and Commodities purchased a unique item. It was to have a song of their choice written by country artist Steve Azar for a charity organization. They [...]
Three fabulous recipes for leftover Easter ham
As a hog farmers daughter I feel compelled to tell you what to do with what’s left of your flavorful, juicy, pink centerpiece from your Easter meal. There are so many better options than just making a plain, ole ham sandwich out it. Here are three of my favorite ways to take the leftover ham [...]
I created a New Holland monster
Two and a half-year-old Tyson can be seen sporting a John Deere shirt at least four days a week. All winter he kept warm in what he called his ‘Case’ coat because it was red. You see my nephew loves farm equipment and is really good at knowing his colors! When I play farm equipment [...]
The most important thing I learned from Dale
I first met Dale Minyo when I was a senior in high school serving as a state FFA officer. Even though it would be seven years before we would begin to work together I ran into him quite a bit in the interim. One such time was when he was filming one of the last [...]
FFA receives confiscated drug equipment
This is certainly one way to turn a bad situation into a good one. The Sidney-Shelby County Narcotics Task Force confiscated a wide array of equipment when they arrested Gregory Barlow for growing marijuana. In lieu of destroying the equipment Shelby County Sheriff, John Lenhart, who is also a farmer and Sidney Police Chief Kevin [...]
Brown box of treasured iron
We have a special box at our house. Everything else in my home is neatly organized in plastic containers and precisely labeled, but this one box doesn’t need a label. Zach and I discussed getting a bigger or nicer box, but decided it would take away from the aura of the special box. It’s well [...]
Mercy for Animals now targeting turkey producers
It appears that the animal rights group, Mercy for Animals now has a new target: the turkey industry. They have a site called Butterball Abuse where they are after the well known Butterball Turkey Company. They have a video out from another one of their infamous undercover videos. This one is from what they call [...]
Santa left gifts with a strong scent of hogs….
Growing up it was our family’s tradition to open gifts, even those from Santa, on Christmas Eve. To trick us kids, it took a little showmanship on our parents part. Festivities usually began in early afternoon with all five us trying to get ready, with only one bathroom, for the children’s mass held at 4:00 [...]
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