The American Farm Bureau Federation presented awards to state Farm Bureaus at the organization’s 101st Annual Convention in Austin, Texas. The awards recognize excellence in implementation of outstanding outreach programs in 2019. Ohio Farm Bureau was the recipient of the…
Lynn Snyder - Jan. 2
Luke Houghton of Westerville has been named director of development for the Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation, as part of Ohio Farm Bureau’s Strategic Partnerships department. He will be focusing his efforts on fundraising for the foundation and maintaining its scholarship…
Bobby Moser has been around agriculture his entire life. The former dean of the Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences has seen a lot of change over the years, but it is the advancement of ag…
Lynn Snyder - Dec. 12, 2019
Ohio State University Extension, Franklin County and the Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation are bringing four ExploreAg camps to high school freshmen, sophomores and juniors to explore various careers in agriculture. Ohio is projected to have 18,000 new jobs in agriculture…
Sixty-six students in grades 7-12 took part in informative presentations and hands-on activities at the John Deere Training Center in Plain City Dec. 6 as part of the ExploreAg program, which exposes students to the many careers in agriculture. At…
Amy Beth Graves - Dec. 2, 2019
“Who bought that painting?” That question echoed throughout the crowd watching the intense bidding on a painting by popular Ohio artist Dave Barnhouse. The richly detailed oil painting depicting a rural scene was one of four items being auctioned off…
A new round of almost $25,000 in grants by Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation will help educate consumers about agriculture and energy, develop leaders and provide resources for teachers to teach agriculture in the classroom. The foundation’s Action & Awareness grants…
To date, we are about $10,000 away from reaching our total fundraising goal of $25,000 for the Bill and Helen Swank Scholarship fund. This #GivingTuesday, will you help us raise 10% of that goal? Bill Swank was a charismatic leader…
The 9th annual Cultivating a Cure, an event created to support cancer treatment and prevention research, welcomed a record 375 attendees and collected over $116,000 for the OSUCCC James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute. Cultivating a Cure was started…
Making a measurable difference in communities and the agricultural industry is the goal of Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation’s Action & Awareness grants. The foundation recently awarded just over $23,000 in grants to nine organizations throughout Ohio. The grants, which ranged…
