There's so much uncertainty, surrounding the East Palestine train derailment for business owners, homeowners and now farmers. They're concerned that contaminants could have found their way into the soil, ultimately damaging their crops.

"I wanna be able to assure people that everything's OK," said Ohio Governor Mike DeWine.

Beginning today, Lindsay's Pine Hill Jersey Farm in New Waterford is having it's plant tissue tested for semi volatile organic compounds or SVOC's for short.

"We wanna get it down as close to the ground as possible and then basically we are putting it in these lovely sample jars," said Grant Downes, Pesticide and Fertilizer Inspector for the Ohio Department of Agriculture. "Then it will hand off to the lab and then it will run it through their process," he said.

"We are staying in line with the other testing that's been going on from soil and water," said Brian Paldridge, Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture. "Making sure that we're in line with the same type of tests that have been going on in the other areas," he said.

21 News asked if dioxins would be included in that testing.

"We are only focusing on the SVOC's, that's what we're testing for," said David Miran, Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture Hemp program.

We followed up with another question asking, how they would know for sure whether or not dioxins were present if they weren't testing for them specifically at that farm.

"Well, based on the results, as I said from the previous EPA studies that are shown within the area, within a closer area, they have not seen results that would be of concern," Miran replied.

Lindsay's Pine Hill Jersey Farm is just the first of several farms in the area that will be tested and those results will come from Ohio State University in three weeks.

If the results aren't favorable, Governor DeWine tells 21 News it's back to the drawing board.