Ohio Farm Bureau’s farmer leaders, members of the media and select staff will be in Washington, D.C. March 12-14, 2019 for the 73rd annual County Presidents’ Trip. While there, they will hear from American Farm Bureau public policy staff members,…
Priority issues
Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer: Hope for Ohio
In the latest episode of Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer, Ohio Farm Bureau’s Director of Water Quality and Research steers from those topics as he talks with Marissa Mulligan, policy outreach fellow for the Ohio Farm Bureau, about an epidemic…
Call-to-Action: Farm bill making slow progress
Farm Bureau is asking members to contact congressional members and keep the pressure on to pass an effective farm bill this year.
RECAP: 72nd Annual County Presidents’ Trip
“We are a true grassroots organization, not just a hashtag.” Those words from OFBF Executive Vice President Adam Sharp to county presidents as they gathered in Washington, D.C. couldn’t have rung more true. The decades-old relationship between Ohio Farm Bureau…
Teens learn about opioid epidemic, prevention
Empowering 4-H and FFA youth to talk to their peers about combating the opioid epidemic was the catalyst behind Hope for Ohio: A Teen Forum on the Opioid Crisis in December. Ohio Farm Bureau, OSU Extension, Ohio FFA and Prevention…
AFBF sets Farm Bill 2018 goals
With economic challenges facing agriculture, underscored by deeper concerns in some commodity sectors, the American Farm Bureau Federation board of directors outlined the organization’s key objectives for the 2018 Farm Bill.
Ohio media learn of conservation practices, tour demo farms
Ten members of Ohio media toured the three farms participating in the Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network during a Farm Bureau sponsored media tour May 11. The group learned details about the conservation practices being tested in an effort to…
Lynn Snyder - March 1, 2017
State, federal priority issues established for 2017
Ohio Farm Bureau has set its state and federal policy priority issues for the year. The organization’s grassroots policy process surfaces and determines areas that have a significant impact on production agriculture, the food system and rural communities. These priorities are…
Joe Cornely
CAUV action needed now
ALERT: Farm Bureau will be making telephone calls to many members asking them to relay their personal CAUV experiences directly to their state legislators. Locate your legislator and his or her phone number at farmvotesmatter.org. Enter your complete mailing address. Your…
Farm Bureau young ag takes on Washington
Ohio Farm Bureau’s AgriPOWER Class VIII and Young Ag Professionals group spent an action-packed and deeply educational three days in Washington, D.C. Sept. 13-15. Two of the main legislative topics throughout the trip were trade, specifically the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and…