Farm Bureau works to identify and address issues that impact Ohio’s food and farm community. Priority issues include work on property taxes, water quality, energy development, promoting good government and securing a proper business climate for agriculture to prosper. The policy book for 2018 was created by delegates to the annual meeting.
Joe Cornely - Today
Science has moved to the forefront in the ongoing discussion of how agriculture can best protect water quality, but politics and angry activists have not disappeared. Legislators and public officials at two separate meetings recently heard about the state of…
Members of the entire farm bill conference committee, nine U.S. senators and 47 U.S. representatives in all, met in early September to deliberate on and make decisions about competing language in the House and Senate versions of the farm bill,…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) announced Friday, October 19, 2018, as the deadline to submit applications for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) in Ohio.
As the trade and tariff war between China and the United States continues, business and government officials from Ohio’s sister state of Hubei Province met with their counterparts in Columbus recently to talk about what the two regions have in…
Amanda Domsitz - Oct. 15
Two wins occurred on the legal front for farmers who faced potentially troubling rulings dealing with agriculture and water quality. Farm Bureau policy counsel Leah Curtis shares the good news. Some excerpts: Joe Cornely: There have been two recent developments…
Joe Cornely - Oct. 15
Election Day is just a little over three weeks away. Do you know who you’ll vote for to serve as Ohio’s top law enforcement official? Democrat Steve Dettelbach and Republican Dave Yost both want to be your next attorney general….
Amanda Domsitz - Oct. 11Ohioans have to endure one of the toughest situations in the country when the government takes their land but refuses to acknowledge it. Protecting landowners from punitive state eminent domain laws is the goal of an Ohio Farm Bureau legal…
Joe Cornely - Oct. 8
As a taxpayer, you want someone to take good care of the money you provide to the state of Ohio. Today’s guests want that job. Democrat Rob Richardson and Republican Robert Sprague are the candidates for State Treasurer, who collects,…
I’m bracing myself, trying to mentally prepare for the onslaught of nastiness that’s about to suck the joy out of watching fall football (or anything else) on TV. Election Day is coming soon, and as someone deeply interested in politics,…
Joe Cornely - Oct. 1
National political pundits are saying that control of the U.S. Senate is up for grabs. Among the key states being watched closely ahead of the November election is Ohio. Incumbent democrat, Sen. Sherrod Brown (pictured right) is facing off against…