State Representative Don JonesBuckeye Trail FFA members serving the pork chop dinner.
Thank you to all the speakers, who are pictured above: County Engineer Paul Sherry, State Rep. Don Jones, County Commissioner Jack Marlin, County Farm Bureau President Miranda Miser, County Commissioner Dave Wilson, County Recorder Colleen Wheatley, Marilyn Callahan, County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsay Angler and County Auditor Office Amy Swigart. They all touched on different aspects of the Farm Bureau.
Cody Pettit representing State Treasurer Robert SpragueGuernsey County Prosecuting Attorney Lindsey Angler
Buckeye Trail FFA students helped serve the dinners to all those who attended; we graciously appreciate your help. We would also like to thank everyone who came out to the Guernsey County pork chop dinner and made it a success!
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.
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.
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.
So many of the issues that OFBF and its members are advocating for are important to all Ohioans. I look at OFBF as an agricultural watchdog advocating for farmers and rural communities across Ohio.
Brandie Finney of Crawford County is the editor of the May 2023 Growing our Generation enewsletter, featuring insights and ideas directly from Ohio’s young farmers and food and agricultural professionals.
Farmers depend on our highways while they grow our food and fiber, especially during the busy farming season, like spring planting and summer / fall harvest.