Safe, Local Ohio Food launches Statewide Issue 2 outreach
Ad campaign, Web site, rallies call for YES vote for Issue 2
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Ad campaign, Web site, rallies call for YES vote for Issue 2
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Farm income & expenses forecast, broadband funds, new commission, pork support, value-added grants, new Web site for beginning farmers and country of origin labels.
Some rural landowners may be surprised when discovering their latest CAUV (Current Agricultural Use Valuation) values have increased some several hundred percent over the last three years.
Saying that it could reduce net farm income by more than $5 billion over the next 10 years, Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) President Brent Porteus recently told a panel of lawmakers that farmers were concerned about cap and trade legislation passed by the U.S. House.
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“Now is the time for all farmers, regardless of what they produce, to come together in a unified effort to protect Ohio agriculture,”
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