Approximately 300 fourth grade students from Gallia County attended the 18th Annual Ag Awareness Day. They spent the day at the Gallia County Fairgrounds learning about various farm animals, tractors, 4-H, shooting safety, skins and skulls, Lyme disease, erosion, beekeeping, making soybean…
Meigs County hosted its first annual Ag Awareness Day. Around 300 fourth grade students from the Meigs County elementary schools attended and spent the day at the fairgrounds. They learned about various agricultural topics such as beekeeping, eggs, skulls and…
Amy Beth Graves - May 17
When fair season rolls around, so do the requests for materials promoting agriculture in Ohio. Chocolate milk flavored lip balms, grilling guides, recipe cards, agriculture-related coloring books, cuts of beef and pork brochures, cow erasers, local farmer videos and farm-to-plate…
Lynn Snyder - March 8Farm Bureau is proud to be teaming with Nationwide and Ohio FFA to offer Farm Bureau youth a great leadership experience. Ohio’s Leadership Conference is open to all FFA and Farm Bureau Youth members. Specialized and advanced programming will be delivered…
Lorain County Farm Bureau and Lorain County Community College are pleased to announce a Tuesday Night Ag Series. On Tuesday, Feb. 26, the program will be Agritourism on Your Farm. A light dinner will be served. The next program will…
Lynn Snyder - Jan. 26
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture presented its 12th “Book of the Year” award to Lisl Detlefsen for “Right This Very Minute.” The book, stunningly illustrated by Renée Kurilla, explains to children how every minute of every day, someone,…
Amy Beth Graves - Jan. 25
Larry Shanholtz still has the navy blue FFA jacket he proudly wore so many years ago around the hallways of Clinton-Massie High School. While he laughs that the jacket is now too small, he said the lessons learned in FFA…
During December 2018 and January 2019 , 10 agricultural educators are being named as Golden Owl Award finalists in surprise ceremonies throughout the state.
Nationwide established the Golden Owl Award to honor an agricultural educator of the year. In this first year, Nationwide partnered with Farm Bureau, Ohio FFA and Iowa FFA to introduce the accolade in Ohio and Iowa. Ten teachers from Ohio and seven from Iowa…
“A venture to highlight the efforts put forth by both the agricultural and lake communities to protect our natural resources.” Join us for FREE family fun on a Sunday afternoon! Spend as much time as you wish at each stop….
