Full stop. The first case of COVID-19 was officially diagnosed in Ohio March 9, and the Ohio Department of Health ordered everyone to stay at home beginning March 23. Suddenly, schools across Ohio closed. Downtown office buildings emptied. Grocery stores…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - Sept. 15
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed House Bill 606 into law, ensuring civil immunity to individuals, schools, health care providers, businesses and other entities from lawsuits arising from exposure, transmission or contraction of COVID-19, or any mutation of the virus, as…
Kelli Milligan Stammen - Sept. 11
Conversations with farmers have historically revolved around two things — weather and markets. Yet in the winter months leading up to spring 2020, Kris Swartz noticed a change in the conversation. Conservation practices were a hot topic when farmers came…
Adam Sharp - Sept. 9
There is no such thing as a normal year in agriculture. From weather to markets to crop conditions, farmers have become accustomed to making adjustments on the fly to make the best of situations that are constantly changing. This year,…
Kelli Milligan Stammen - July 29
In 2017, Ohio Farm Bureau members pushed for CAUV reform and that work has paid off as the declines to members’ tax values continue to grow. The Current Agricultural Use Value program allows farmland devoted exclusively to commercial agriculture to…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - July 27
The Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) has been notified that several Ohio residents have received unsolicited packages in the mail containing seeds that appear to have originated from China. The types of seeds in the packages are currently unknown and…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - July 22
As Gov. Mike DeWine laid out orders for Ohio’s county and independent fairs to operate amid COVID-19, his goal was to try to provide an outlet for young people who participate in 4-H and FFA to do so safely during…
Lynn Snyder - July 21
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler recently visited the Blanchard River Demonstration Farms in northwest Ohio. Administrator Wheeler learned about all of the testing being done to improve water quality for the Western Lake Erie Basin and all of…
Amy Beth Graves - July 21
The phone call April 3 stunned Kevin Spreng. He was going to have to dump more than 700 gallons of milk on his Shreve farm, Willow Brook Dairy. The reason? His milk processor, Dairymens Inc., was over capacity for milk…
Lynn Snyder - July 17
The summer council packet has two new discussion guides; one related to policy development and the other focused on Farm Bureau programming. These topics should give community councils a few options for their meetings into the fall. Special Council Member…
