Using funds from the American Rescue Plan would alleviate Ohio employers from having to pay the state’s unemployment insurance loan.
Ty Higgins - April 14
COVID-19 Agriculture Updates and Information
Get the latest news regarding updates to the COVID-19 crisis as they affect Ohio agriculture. Read stories about how Ohio farmers and ag businesses are adapting to the changes in the industry and market.
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Guidelines set for the 2021 fair season
The governor’s revised orders for fairs include compliance with the statewide mask order and social distancing, as well as guidelines for animal exhibitions.
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - Jan. 22
Legal with Leah: COVID vaccine requirements in the workplace
What does the vaccine rollout for Ohio look like, when will the farm and food sector have access to the vaccine, and will there be workplace vaccine requirements?
Ty Higgins - Jan. 12
Paycheck Protection Program opens Round 2
The new COVID-19 relief package that Congress passed at the end of 2020 included a second allocation of funds for the Paycheck Protection Program totaling $284 billion. “The thought process behind the PPP is to assist businesses that had to…
Ty Higgins - Dec. 1, 2020
USDA Service Center operating status changes
As the number of COVID-19 cases has risen significantly across the United States and in Ohio over the last several weeks, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has made the decision to adjust its operating status in USDA Service Centers that…
Michael Stewart Leach - Nov. 19, 2020
Pandemic leads to spike in demand for local produce
Nostalgia and trendy share shelf space at the family-run Monnin’s Fruit Farm about 10 minutes from downtown Dayton. Antique cash registers used in the farm store’s first years, trays of hydroponic lettuce grown in nearby Vandalia, FreshStart Farm organic dairy…
Amy Beth Graves - Nov. 17, 2020
A collaboration to crow about
When restaurants started closing their doors because of COVID-19 in March, Tom Hertzfeld scrambled to find homes for many of the eggs sold through his family business, Hertzfeld Poultry Farms in northwestern Ohio. Some were shifted from going to restaurants…
Ty Higgins - Oct. 28, 2020
DeWine requests $5 billion dividend to Ohio employers
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine was joined by Lt. Gov. Jon Husted Wednesday to request the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation send up to $5 billion in dividends to Ohio employers to ease the continued financial impact from the COVID-19 pandemic….
How the food supply chain weathered the COVID-19 storm
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, 2020
House Bill 606 brings certainty as Ohio rebuilds
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…