Farmer’s Guide to Trucking Regulations available to Ohio Farm Bureau members
The guide includes a farm driver checklist, overview of state and federal regulations and exemptions, CDL qualifications and more.
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Many of you saw an article in the Urbana Citizen early in March referring to a meeting concerning solar panel development in Champaign County. Dale Arnold with Ohio Farm Bureau joined us in Urbana at the community center on March 25 to discuss issues with landowners and interested citizens. Mr. Arnold is the director of Ohio Farm Bureau Federation energy, utility and government issues. This was a joint meeting with Champaign and Miami County Farm Bureaus. If our members have additional questions about solar energy development in the area, please contact us at the office by calling 937-335-1471 or email us at [email protected].
During the week of March 11, I traveled to Washington, D.C. with a delegation of other Ohio county Farm Bureau presidents to meet with our U.S. Senators, Sherrod Brown and Rob Portman, as well as the U.S. Representative for Champaign County, Jim Jordan. We also had meetings with several other groups of congressmen from other states. During this time, we advocated and hopefully educated our leaders about issues important to farmers and the farm community from western Ohio.
Our 2019 volunteer membership campaign concluded at the end of March and we achieved gain in membership in Champaign County. We had a very successful joint kick off event with Clark County at Mother Stewart’s Brewery in Springfield and those who were in attendance enjoyed an evening with friends, food and drink as well as entertainment from the Overdrive Band, featuring board member Dave Crawford.
At the December 2018 annual meeting, Ohio Farm Bureau began celebrating 100 years since our beginning. I have been very fortunate to attend many of these meetings. One of the best parts is making friends all over this great state of Ohio. “Spring is coming soon”.
-Tom Nisonger, Champaign County Farm Bureau president
Labor has always been an issue, mainly because we are a seasonal operation. So that's a challenge finding somebody who only wants to work three months out of a year, sometimes up to six months.
I appreciate the benefit of having a strong voice in my corner. The extras that are included in membership are wonderful, but I'm a member because of the positive impact to my local and state agricultural communities.
I see the value and need to be engaged in the community I live in, to be a part of the decision-making process and to volunteer with organizations that help make our community better.
Farm Bureau involvement has taught me how to grow my professional and leadership experience outside of the workforce and how to do that in a community-centric way.
With not growing up on a farm, I’d say I was a late bloomer to agriculture. I feel so fortunate that I found the agriculture industry. There are so many opportunities for growth.
Knowing that horticulture is under the agriculture umbrella and having Farm Bureau supporting horticulture like it does the rest of ag is very important.
If it wasn't for Farm Bureau, I personally, along with many others, would not have had the opportunity to meet with our representatives face to face in Washington.
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