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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Michael Stewart Leach - Nov. 19
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
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
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….
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…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - July 28
On Tuesday, Gov. Mike DeWine announced that the remaining county and independent fairs set to take place in Ohio in 2020 will be ordered to run as junior fairs only. Read the order “We laid down some very specific guidelines…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - July 24
For a while in late spring, there was a significant slowdown in meat production. Food chain disruptions due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in meat processing bottlenecks. Grocery and food pantry refrigerators and freezers were running low or on empty,…
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…
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - July 16
In early July, a public health order was put into effect mandating face coverings in public in all Ohio counties that have reached the designation of Red Alert Level 3 Public Health Emergency or a Purple Alert Level 4 Public…
