On this episode of Legal with Leah, Ty Higgins visits with Ohio Farm Bureau Policy Counsel Leah Curtis about a recent Supreme Court decision regarding eminent domain, the topic of the first Supreme Court case that Ohio Farm Bureau has…
Protecting Property Rights
Joe Cornely - March 27
Ohio Farm Bureau fights expanded eminent domain authority
The fight to protect landowners from expanded eminent domain authority continues. Ohio Farm Bureau successfully prevented an expansion of takings authority in the Senate’s version of the transportation budget, but it could return. Legislators from both chambers must reconcile their…
A Look Back at 2018: Advocacy
Farm Bureau continued to fight for members’ rights and interests on several fronts in 2018. Water quality and how to help ensure a cleaner Lake Erie while continuing to defend members’ right to farm remained a top priority for Farm…
Amanda Domsitz - Oct. 11, 2018Legal With Leah: U.S. Supreme Court recap
Ohioans have to endure one of the toughest situations in the country when the government takes their land but refuses to acknowledge it. Protecting landowners from punitive state eminent domain laws is the goal of an Ohio Farm Bureau legal…
Amy Beth Graves - June 21, 2018
OFBF engaged in Stark County rails-to-trails case
Ohio Farm Bureau is helping members protect their landowner rights by becoming involved in a rails-to-trails court case. A Stark County Farm Bureau family is challenging a park district’s attempts to convert former railroad property into a trail. The Dickerhoof…
Ohio Farm Bureau defends property rights in brief to U.S. Supreme Court
Protecting landowners from punitive state eminent domain laws is the goal of an Ohio Farm Bureau legal brief recently submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States. Ohio is one of only three states in which landowners are forced…
Amy Beth Graves - April 25, 2018Legal Update: Wayne County rails to trails case
AT ISSUE: Landowners claim to have gained legal ownership of an abandoned railroad corridor through their land under the legal theory of adverse possession (exclusive possession of the land for at least 21 years). FARM BUREAU ACTION: OFBF filed an…
Joe Cornely - Feb. 2, 2018
EPA, Army Corps WOTUS decision a big win for farmers
The U.S. EPA and Army Corps of Engineers announced on Jan. 31 they are withdrawing and rewriting the Waters of the United States rule, a move celebrated by Farm Bureau. Farm Bureau has fought against the rule since it was…
Residents, farmers come together to clean Black Fork River
Area residents and farmers have come together in a true grassroots effort to improve the Richland County community by cleaning the Black Fork River.
Amy Beth Graves - May 12, 2017
OFBF members meet with ag secretary to talk about trade, other issues
Trade, water quality, immigration, regulations, infrastructure and renewable energy were among the many topics Ohio Farm Bureau members and other farmers discussed with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue on Thursday.