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The Heimerl Family Tradition

Jim and Kathy Heimerl's operation originated back in the 1940's in Johnstown Ohio, when Jim's parents Don and Marjorie farmed along with having a construction trade. Jim graduated from Johnstown High School in 1975, and started farming in a partnership with his father Don Heimerl until 1980 when his father retired. At the time, the farm consisted of 300 acres of cropland and 200 head of feeder cattle. Jim has since expanded the farm to it's present size. The family currently owns 600 acres, and additional ground is rented to total just over 2000 acres. Hogs were introduced into the operation in 1992, when Jim leased a facility in Fairfield County and began with a 225 head farrow-to-finish operation. A finishing barn was then built on the home farm in Johnstown, which housed 1200 finishing hogs and a 1200 head nursery. In 1994, the leased sow facility in Fairfield County was expanded to 400 head. In 1996, Heimerl Farms purchased their first farrowing facility in Pleasantville which housed 350 head located in Fairfield County. This unit was expanded in 1997 to 600 head. A 3600 head nursery was also added to house animals that came from the facility. Contract finisher barns were built in the area to house the growing amount of animals produced within our facilities. The leased facility in Fairfield County was showing age and wear, so when the contract expired in 1999, a new unit was built in Brown County, called Eagle Creek Swine, which was finished in 2000 and houses 2400 head of sows. Additional contract barns were built in central and southern Ohio to facilitate these operations.

The newest renovation took place in 2002, when the nursery at Pleasantville was converted to a farrowing barn, and the entire facility was completely remodeled and repopulated, and a new gestation barn was added. Another multiplying unit was added in 2004 called Mad River Swine which is very similar to the other multiplier units. All units are currently multiplying gilts for PIC. Currently the operation has 10,000 sows between 3 Sow units, three of which are multipliers for a genetics company. There are approximately 250,000 hogs sold annually.

The Heimerl's also have a seed sales business, and an anhydrous ammonia business. We farm with Case International equipment, and have approximately 50 employees. There is an on-site feed grinding system which makes pig feed for nearly 60% of our operation. Heimerl Farms Inc. was created in 2003 which owns its own trucks and hauls hogs produced within our facilities to the packer. Jim and Kathy have four children: Casey, Matt, Brad and Jeff. All have exhibited 4-H projects and worked on the family farm. All three boys were proudly involved with the Johnstown FFA; Matt graduated in June 2005 from OSU with honors; Brad and Jeff are Seniors at Wilmington College. Casey is a married college graduate and works in Cincinnati at Premier Lease and Loan, a division of Great American Insurance as a product manager.

Jim is a current member and past president of the Hartford Senior Fairboard, a past member of the Licking County Soil and Water Conservation District board, currently serving on Congressman Pat Tiberi's House of Representatives Ag advisory Council, along with being a Ohio Pork Producers Council board member. He has achieved a level III Quality Assurance concerning the National Pork Producers Council.

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