With economic challenges facing agriculture, underscored by deeper concerns in some commodity sectors, the American Farm Bureau Federation board of directors outlined the organization’s key objectives for the 2018 Farm Bill.
All Posts by Kelli Milligan Stammen
H3N2 Influenza Update
From Roger High, Ohio Farm Bureau director, livestock policy and executive director, Ohio Sheep Improvement Association and Ohio Sheep and Wool Program Have you heard a lot about the recent outbreak of H3N2 Influenza at the Clinton County Fair? Well, to help provide accurate…
‘Pizza farm’ teaches kids how their favorite food grows
Buses loaded with elementary school students eager for a special day away from their classrooms roll up and down the hills and valleys that shape the landscape in rural eastern Ohio. It’s the annual Fifth Grade Field Day for the…
Drug crisis comes to rural Ohio
When the East Coast press wants to do a front page story in a flyover state like Ohio, that usually means it’s election season. But when The New York Times visited a farm in Blanchester this past March, the story…
Lifecycle of a family farm: Summer labor
Cultivating the soybean and corn crops, as well as harvesting wheat is what keeps Ron Burns busy during the summer months. This is the second installment of “a year in the life” of Union County farmer Ron Burns and his…
Sharp: Farmers are working to address nutrient runoff issues
Ohio Farm Bureau Executive Vice President Adam Sharp was invited to testify today before a United States Senate committee on the conservation partnerships and programs Ohio farmers have voluntarily participated in for the benefit of water quality and environmental sustainability….
Conservation a key component for CAUV reform
The state budget has to be signed into law by Gov John Kasich June 30, and Ohio Farm Bureau’s top priority issue – changes to the Current Agricultural Use Value formula – is slated to be a part of it….
Independent dairy farmers have to find new homes for milk
Supply and demand are to blame for the scramble some independent milk producers find themselves in the middle of to find a new marketing mechanism for their dairy product. In the last several months, the Dairy Farmers of America’s Dairy…
WOTUS is on the way out
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency made a proposal June 27 to rescind the Clean Water Rule and revert to the water rule language that existed before 2015, giving the agency time to redefine what ‘waters of the United States’ or…
July/August 2017 Our Ohio magazine preview
What farmers call “winter wheat” – and ‘America the Beautiful” lyricist Katherine Lee Bates called “amber waves of grain” – graces the cover of the July/August issue of Our Ohio magazine as Union County member Ron Burns’ “A year in…