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Butler County Farm Bureau

President’s Message – January 2024

Butler County Presidents CornerSince our annual meeting in 2023, our board of trustees has been busy in its committee structure with plans to educate our members and nonmembers about the benefits available through Farm Bureau. We worked along side Nancy Nix, Butler County Auditor, and the county CAUV staff in providing an Open Forum in late 2023 for questions relating to the updated real estate valuations and how the CAUV rates will be calculated. 

We are planning to have an educational program in March, which we will be hosted at the Parish Center of Holy Name of Jesus in Trenton centered around buying and selling local meat and CAUV for small farms. More details to follow on this Butler County Farm Bureau web page. 

Butler County sent five delegates to attend the Ohio Farm Bureau Annual Meeting in early December. At this meeting, policy proposals were presented. After presentation and discussion, voting occurred. Butler County did have policy proposals included and the outcome of those proposals are discussed later in this newsletter issue (check your mailbox).

I attended the district meeting in late December which included a few board members from each of the four counties in our District; Butler, Hamilton, Montgomery and Preble. This meeting was an opportunity to discuss successes of other counties in their membership drives. We brought back several ideas from this meeting to discuss with our board and determine what might work for our county.

Health and wellness was also a big topic for our farm families. Ohio Farm Bureau offers members several health insurance and medical reimbursement plans to help members and their families stay healthy and control health care costs. 

Scholarship opportunities are available at both the state and county level. Our county scholarship applications are posted online and will be due by March 31. 

If you have any questions or would like to learn more about what benefits are available to you through your county membership, please call us at 513-844-8371 or email us butler@ofbf.org.

Sincerely,

Kathy Carmack, President

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