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"Land and Living: Agriculture – Your Link to Life!" located in the Nationwide-sponsored Ag and Hort Building and presented by the Ohio Farm Bureau and more than 30 other agricultural partners at the Ohio State Fair is now in its sixth year and continues to enhance the activities and displays available at no cost to fairgoers.

The exhibit was created to become a family destination, where both rural and urban people can come and experience agriculture in an interactive format, according to Mike Pullins, OFBF’s executive director of development corporation.

This year’s exhibit offers some new items and updates and some new partners, including Red Gold, Franklin Park Conservatory and the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency.

"They came to us," Pullins said. "They want to be a part of a successful venture. They want the crowds and the traffic we generate," he said. An estimated 300,000 visitors stopped at the building last year.

This year’s exhibit specifically highlights biofuels. E85 information will be available near the corn climbing wall. A car covered with corn and soybeans, originally displayed at the Cincinnati Flower Show, will be on display, and the Ohio Soybean Council will be displaying a biodiesel vehicle and providing information about biodiesel.

Other attractions include:

• A Kubota Compact Tractor and a Case IH Tractor and Ripper, provided by Buckeye Tractor.
• Samples of Red Gold salsa Aug. 3 to 6.

• Farm Bureau Youth exhibit featuring cornhole and other games. Farm Bureau youth council members also will be helping staff the exhibit.
• County Farm Bureau painted canvases will be on display. The "Growing a Masterpiece" project invited counties to paint canvases to represent food and agriculture in their respective counties.
• The Nationwide exhibit this year will focus on boating, motorcycle and home safety. There also will be an antique car to represent the theme of "Celebrating 80 years of working with Ohio Farm Bureau."