The Fairfield County Farm Bureau partnered with Nationwide Agent Gary Gibson to host a special estate planning and elder care planning seminar for Farm Bureau members. Held at the Fairfield County Ag Center on Thursday, Feb. 2, James Aranda of the Stebelton, Aranda & Snider law firm of Lancaster presented an overview on what farm families need to be doing to preserve and protect the assets of ...
Take the Shape the Future of Central Ohio survey! Shaping our Future is a plan the Mid Ohio Regional Planning Commission is spearheading for 12 counties in central Ohio. Expected to be completed in 2012, Shaping Our Future will integrate elements that impact the region including the transportation system, land use patterns, air quality, energy security, water quality, food production, and economi...
Seventy-six attendees were on hand Monday night, January 11, to learn how to best protect their most productive farmland. In its second year, the Fairfield County Farm Bureau in conjunction with neighboring Farm Bureaus, Soil & Water Districts, Ohio Department of Agriculture, OSU Extension and private land trusts held its annual "How to protect your farmland" meeting. Farmers were invited to c...
Join us for the Learn How to Protect Your Farmland meeting on Monday Jan. 11, 2010. This meeting is a continuation of a program started last year in conjunction with a number of partners including the Fairfield, Licking and Perry County Farm Bureaus, the Fairfield Soil & Water Conservation District and the Ohio Department of Agriculture. Learn how to take advantage of usefull tools to help pro...
Cassandra Palsgrove of Pickerington is the winner of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation’s (OFBF) 2009 Discussion Meet. She competed with three other finalists during the OFBF annual meeting held Dec. 2–4 in Cincinnati. Palsgrove won an expense-paid trip to the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting in Seattle in January to represent Ohio in the national contest. She also received $1,000 cou...
We are gearing up to spread the word to vote YES for Issue 2 on November 3. In light of this, the Fairfield County Farm Bureau has developed a public speaking contest regarding animal welfare. It is our hope to not only provide valuable public speaking experience, but also to equip individuals with knowledge who can go out and be advocates for the agricultural community this fall.We have attached ...
The Fairfield County Farm Bureau along with the Lancaster Fairfield County Chamber of Commerce would like to invite you to the first ever Fairfield County Agriculture Update. We’ve formed a great partnership with the Chamber to promote and showcase the agricultural business sector of Fairfield County and want to share it with you and the rest of the Fairfield County business community. Join us on ...
Many times we ask ourselves, “I wish I can do more for the hungry in our own community.” Thanks to Bill Steinman’s vision, that question has been answered with Fairfield County Community Gardens. It is a gift of exercise and elbow grease that is open to all citizens to help grow vegetables for their own families as well as to stock the fourteen Food Pantries all over ...