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Creating Your Business Plan
Building a personalized business plan is extremely important for businesses in any industry, including agriculture. Our goal is to provide agricultural business owners with the educational information and resources to create such a plan for their enterprise. Click here for resources and websites.

Understanding Farm Commodity Programs and Their Relation to the World Trade Organization (WTO) (PowerPoint)
On October 10, the United States released a negotiating proposal in the Doha round of WTO trade negotiations. This presentation provides some background and educational information on U.S. farm programs, summarizes the U.S. proposal and examines the impacts of this proposal.

Soybean Rust Update
Click here for the latest on soybean rust, including a number of valuable website links.

Producer Perspective
Click here for an inside look at Ohio Agriculture.

Navigating the 2002 Farm Bill
The 2002 Farm Bill has given U.S. agricultural producers options - a lot of options. With these options has come a complexity not previously experienced in previous farm programs. Wading through this complexity, however, can mean a greater safety net and is well worth producers' time. For more information, select the above link.

International Trade (PDF)
Foreign Trade will have a huge impact on the future of Ohio and American agriculture. Read the Ohio Farm Bureau Fact Finding Mission Report on European trade and find out more here. * Note this is a very large PDF file (7MB) that will take awhile to download, but worth the wait.

Contracting (PDF)
The Ohio Farm Bureau has published a guide for contractors.

A Million Paychecks (PDF)
Click here to see "A Million Paychecks," a downloadable flyer about how one million jobs in Ohio relate to agriculture.

County Fact Sheets (PDFs)
For county specific land use and economic data look at the top of each county directory page.