Legal with Leah: Noxious weeds
What are considered noxious weeds in Ohio and what is the landowner’s responsibility in keeping them controlled?
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Farm Bureau leads the effort to establish landowner protections, including eminent domain reform and streamlined judicial procedures to help preserve farmland
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Learn MoreWhat are considered noxious weeds in Ohio and what is the landowner’s responsibility in keeping them controlled?
Read MoreOhio Farm Bureau and the Union County Farm Bureau recently filed an amicus brief in a case with potential impacts to farmland preservation programs.
Read MoreAdam Sharp, Ohio Farm Bureau executive vice president, sent the following letter to the editor to The Toledo Blade in response to the Blade Editorial Board’s opinion piece, “Plan to protect Lake Erie needs teeth.”
Read MoreProjects will create wetlands, restore wetlands on hydric soils and/or enhance water quality at existing wetlands and floodplains.
Read MoreFrom an outside perspective, manure application may look like a simple task, but it takes numerous people and organizations to collaborate to complete the job.
Read MoreLandowners should have the right to challenge and make sure that a taking is necessary and that it’s limited to what is actually necessary so that the law is upheld.
Read MoreThe Farmer Advocates for Conservation project is training farmers to mentor other farmers in the Maumee River watershed.
Read MoreUSDA’s Risk Management Agency is expanding double crop insurance opportunities in nearly 1,500 counties, including 87 of Ohio’s 88 counties, where double cropping is viable.
Read MoreNine farmers and agribusiness professionals have been selected to participate in Ohio Farm Bureau’s 2022-2023 AgriPOWER Institute.
Read MoreHoewischer and Stephanie Singer, agriculture outreach project manager at The Nature Conservancy, talk about the conservancy’s Farmer Advocates for Conservation Program.
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