With the kickoff of the #gotyourback campaign, the Ohio Department of Agriculture is moving the topic of mental health on the farm forward. The initiative, of which Ohio Farm Bureau is a proud partner, was created to let farmers know…
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Ohio Farm Bureau is working closely with the DeWine administration, as well as state and national agencies, to determine what options may be available for farmers to lessen the blows of this catastrophic growing season.
Across the Table: Farmers don’t quit
They say rain makes grain. Well, that certainly wasn’t the case this spring. Nonstop, heavy rains kept many corn, soybean, fruit and vegetable farmers out of their tractors and only about half of the state’s crops were actually planted. I…
More than half the state designated an ag disaster area
Farmers in more than half the counties in Ohio are eligible to apply for emergency loans following a series of natural disasters since November 2018, culminating in a disastrous planting season this spring. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue granted…
Specialty growers not as dampened by spring rains
The impact of a rainy spring can be pretty easy to spot when hundreds of thousands of acres that should be lush, green fields are instead dirt brown and riddled with weeds. Corn and soybean farmers across Ohio will tell…
Legal with Leah: Prevent plant and CAUV implications
On this episode of Legal with Leah, Senior Director of Corporate Communications Joe Cornely discusses what farmers and landowners should do if they have taken prevent plant payments and their land is in the Current Agriculture Use Value program. Complete…
Joe Cornely - July 1
#NoPlant19 on Town Hall Ohio
No one remembers it ever being like this. Too much rain, falling far too often, has created an unprecedented situation for farmers in Ohio and across much of the nation. There have been years when some of the crop didn’t…
Ohio NRCS announces disaster recovery funding to plant cover crops on flooded cropland acreage
Extreme weather conditions like the recent excessive rains and tornadoes have negatively impacted Ohio farmers. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service will invest $4 million to help Ohio agricultural producers recover. Technical and financial assistance is now…
Lynn Snyder - June 21Prevent plant, weed control and cover crops
This evening program will help farmers struggling to make decisions about prevent plant, controlling weeds and potential cover crops. Three key experts marketing cover crop seed in Ohio will provide the details on cover crops for this summer: David Brandt,…
Lynn Snyder - June 20
Podcast: The impact of prevent plant
The number of prevent plant acres in Ohio will be historic after a devastatingly wet spring. Just how record-breaking will the numbers be in 2019 and what implications will they have for the short and long term for farmers and…
Ohio FSA requests disaster declarations
After meeting with farmers in the most impacted areas of the state and after collecting cropping data, gathering planting history and taking photos of the wide-ranging acres of unplanted fields, Ohio FSA has officially requested USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue to make Disaster Declarations for Fulton, Henry and Lucas counties.