Amy Graves - June 22
Ohio Farm Bureau is continuing efforts to protect landowners’ rights during pipeline construction. In southern Ohio, TransCanada’s Columbia Gas Transmission is starting a new project, Buckeye Xpress, that will upgrade a pipeline that runs through Jackson, Vinton and Lawrence counties…
Amy Graves - June 21
Ohio Farm Bureau is helping members protect their landowner rights by becoming involved in a rails-to-trails court case. A Stark County Farm Bureau family is challenging a park district’s attempts to convert former railroad property into a trail. The Dickerhoof…
Lynn Snyder - June 19
Motor vehicle accidents are the most common agribusiness insurance claim, according to Nationwide. Nationwide is the largest insurer of farms in the United States. Over the last three years, the top 10 claim types have accounted for more than 50,000…
Joe Cornely - June 18
The vision of farming is often romanticized. Days outdoors instead of at a corporate desk. Staining your hands with soil instead of printer ink. Well, for a growing number of people, it’s not a romantic notion. It’s reality. And it’s…
Ohio Farm Bureau’s Issue Advisory Teams spent the day touring member operations and discussing potential policy initiatives in Massillon during the 2018 Trends and Issues Conference June 14.
Protecting landowners from punitive state eminent domain laws is the goal of an Ohio Farm Bureau legal brief recently submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. Ohio is one of only three states in which landowners are forced…
State Farm Bureau presidents urge U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Perdue to work with President Trump to end the escalation of trade disputes with China.
Lynn Snyder - June 7
Exceptional community citizenship is one of the values that makes FFA, 4-H and Farm Bureau such successful organizations. These groups are partnering on the 2018 Ohio Youth Capital Challenge program, giving teens the opportunity to get involved in issues affecting…
Joe Cornely - June 4
One of Ohio’s greatest resources is Lake Erie. It’s the source of drinking water for millions of Ohioans. It’s an economic engine for much of the state. It’s also one of Ohio’s top recreational opportunities. It also faces some problems…
My name is Marissa Mulligan, and I am the new Policy Outreach Fellow for the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation. I am excited to begin my work researching policies that affect the members of Farm Bureau around the state of Ohio….
