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The final OFBF regional cabinet/training meetings of the year are winding down this month with hundreds of members gathering to share ideas and interact with their peers.

The first meeting was held Feb. 13 in Piketon for River Valley Region South and included training for county presidents, information coordinators, youth advisers, and ag ecology, promotion and education and policy development, advisory council and young farmer chairs.

Upcoming meetings, which run from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and include dinner, are:

• Feb. 22 – Pioneer Region South, Pleasant Grove United Methodist Church, 400 Pleasant Grove Rd., Zanesville.

• Feb. 23 – Pioneer Region North, Maplewood Career Center, 7075 State Rt. 88, Ravenna.

• Feb. 27 – River Valley Region North, Greene County Career Center, 2960 W. Enon Road, Xenia.

• Feb. 28 – Buckeye Region, West Independence United Methodist Church, 22876 U.S. Rt. 224, Fostoria.

For the first time, OFBF is hosting Ohio State University Farm Policy and Market Outlook Conferences in conjunction with the cabinet meetings in Zanesville, Xenia and Fostoria. The OSU meetings are in the same location as the cabinet meetings and run from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. They will provide updates on food demand, grains, farm policy, technology and energy. The cost is $5 for Farm Bureau members and $7 for nonmembers.

"Ohio State has a great tradition of putting on farm outlook meetings and we see this as a great way to promote them by holding them with our cabinet meetings," said Chris Henney, OFBF's director of ag ecology programs.

To register for the OSU meetings, contact Jennifer Hungerford at 614-246-8289 or look on the Web at http://aede.osu.edu/programs/outlook.