Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Dorothy Pelanda discusses the success of H2Ohio in northwest Ohio.
Some important deadlines are looming for farmers wanting to join the nearly 2,000 who are already signed up for the H2Ohio water quality program. To date, over 1 million acres have Voluntary Nutrient Management Plans in place, a key component of H2Ohio. This week, we visit with the director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Dorothy Pelanda, to find out more about the initiative and other important items, like food security and the department’s work with county fairs.
00:00 – Ohio Department of Agriculture Director Dorothy Pelanda discusses the success of H2Ohio in northwest Ohio and how her agency has helped farmers through the recent challenges in Ohio’s food supply chain.
16:50 – The Ohio Dairy Action Group is taking what it has learned from industry experts and created policy to help dairy farmers across the state remain viable. Ohio Farm Bureau’s Brandon Kern has the details.
23:50 – In a new series of “To the Beat of Agriculture” segments, hear from Ohio Farm Bureau State Trustee Craig Pohlman about his involvement in the organization and initiatives that he is taking to emphasize the value Farm Bureau provides to members.
32:20 – The Ohio State University is the lead university partner of a multimillion-dollar NASA-funded effort to develop a new generation of commercially based, human-occupied space stations. Ohio State’s John M. Horack, Neil Armstrong chair in aerospace policy and lead researcher for the Starlab collaboration; and Scott Shearer, professor and chair, Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering explain the project’s mission and how their university got involved.
Ohio Farm Bureau members celebrated “Our Legacy, Our Future” as the organization held its 104th annual meeting earlier this month in Columbus.
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The correlation between agriculture and the equine industries is not hard to find. Farmers provide for the horses and, in turn, those horses are a major draw at county fairs.
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Meet the 2022 winner, Barrett Zimmerman, the state’s Ag Educator of the Year.
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Congressman Bob Gibbs will be calling it a career when his term expires in two months. Before his years of public service, he held leadership roles at the county and state levels of Farm Bureau, once serving as president of the organization.
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Today Nationwide Agribusiness, a Fortune 100 company, offers a full range of insurance and financial services across the country and remains the largest farm insurer in the county.
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Andy ‘Caygeon’ Junkin is helping many farms by doing the heavy lifting for weighty succession conversations. Junkin is widely recognized as the leading expert on farm succession and farm debt turnarounds.
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For the second year, Ohio Farm Bureau’s Washington, D.C. Leadership Experience included multiple groups joining forces to visit face-to-face with lawmakers about issues that could have major implications to Farm Bureau members across Ohio.
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Learn more about community solar leases, how eminent domain fits into the solar discussion and how your tax situation may change if you become involved in a lease.
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That growing interest in solar energy in the Buckeye State has led to difficult discussions, tough decisions and a divide in opinion across the countryside. On this Our Ohio Weekly, we talk all things solar with two Ohio Farm Bureau experts.
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The premier agricultural education and industry exposition, Farm Science Review, is set for Sept. 20–22 at the Molly Caren Agricultural Center near London.
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