Ensuring a Competitive Business Environment
Farm Bureau is hard at work advocating for rural broadband access, competitive tax policies, and fighting against burdensome regulations. Farm Bureau advocates for increased marketing home and abroad, from ensuring direct marketing operations have reasonable regulation to expanding international trading opportunities.
Here are some ways we have worked to support businesses, particularly through COVID disruptions.
Ohio Farm Bureau wrote a letter to Ohio’s congressional delegation urging swift action to avert a rail strike or lockout that would lead to shutdowns or slowdowns of rail-dependent facilities.
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When ODOT initially unveiled its US Route 23 proposals, the Skinner family saw red flags all over the place and the need to take action.
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Dan Young, CEO and chief ice cream dipper for Young’s Jersey Dairy in Yellow Springs, Ohio talks about how his business has survived and his outlook on the future.
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Farm Bureau’s message to lawmakers this week was to keep the trains moving and not to put more pressure on an already bogged down supply chain.
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Landowners 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.
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USDA’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.
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Ohio Farm Bureau was part of a group of Ohio’s largest business organizations that announced their endorsement of Sharon Kennedy for chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court and Pat DeWine and Pat Fischer for re-election to the Ohio Supreme Court.
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Even though fuel prices remain high, the increased use of corn ethanol is helping temper those price increases. And it’s also benefiting the farmers who grow the corn.
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Ohio Farm Bureau submitted public comments in a letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission regarding a proposed rule that could severely impact family farms by requiring climate disclosures by public companies.
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So far, governors in eight Midwestern states have taken the action of notifying the EPA that they wish to switch to this fuel.
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