Lynn Snyder - July 21, 2020
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…
Ty Higgins - July 9, 2020
This Water Quality Status Report, the sixth in a series, shows the strides farmers have made in improving and protecting one of the state’s most valuable resources and that clean water and productive farming can coexist.
Ty Higgins - June 4, 2020
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced Ohio Farm Bureau Senior Director of Policy Development and Environmental Policy Dr. Larry Antosch as a member of the Great Lakes Advisory Board, an EPA federal advisory committee. Administrator Wheeler re-established the…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - May 19, 2020
After a lot of anxiety about whether the launch of Gov. Mike DeWine’s H2Ohio water quality initiative would need to be delayed a year or cut due to the coronavirus pandemic, farmers in northwest Ohio recently received some good news…
Ty Higgins - May 8, 2020
Toledo voters passed the Lake Erie Bill of Rights in 2019, giving Toledoans the legal right to sue anyone accused of violating the lake’s right under LEBOR to “exist, flourish and naturally evolve.” The very next day, a lawsuit challenging…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - April 7, 2020
The Ohio Department of Agriculture has been blown away by the thousands of farmers who signed up for H2Ohio funds in the 14 counties of the Maumee Watershed prior to the revised March 31 deadline. Ohio farmers stepped up to…
Amy Beth Graves - April 6, 2020
“Cover crop technology … feeding the world through healthier soil.” When it comes to water quality and environmental stewardship, the Dean family in Bryan lives up to its business motto. The Williams County Farm Bureau members are recipients of the…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - March 31, 2020
In the latest episode of Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer, Ohio Farm Bureau’s Director of Media Relations Ty Higgins interviews Hoewischer about the H2Ohio program and the Ohio Agriculture Conservation Initiative Farmer Certification program. Higgins and Hoewischer discuss how the…
Ty Higgins - March 30, 2020
The deadline for farmers to submit applications for the H2Ohio program is moving back to the original date of March 31, 2020. Gov. Mike DeWine strongly believes in the H2Ohio water quality initiative and farmers have shown overwhelming interest to…
Adam Sharp - March 10, 2020
When farmers see an opportunity, we take it. If there is a narrow window to plant, we head to the field. When the price of soybeans or corn jumps, we haul a truckload to the elevator. In 2020, an opportunity…
