Butler County family navigates rising costs as it fights to keep generations-old farm thriving

HAMILTON, Ohio — Farming has been a way of life for generations at Brown’s Family Farm Market, but it now faces a one-two punch of higher fuel prices to run the equipment and high fertilizer costs to grow the crops.

Jody Boyd is a fourth-generation manager who oversees day-to-day operations around the farm and market.

“We expanded into the produce business probably about 36 years ago when we moved to this location in 1990 and we have always grown produce,” Boyd said…

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