During the holidays, Mercer County Farm Bureau and community partners supplied thank you bags for 600 Mercer Health front-line workers.
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - Jan. 6
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Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - Jan. 6 Kelli Milligan Stammen - Dec. 28, 2020
Drive-thru Santa breakfast in Jackson County
Roughly 400 attended a modified, drive-thru Breakfast on the Farm event, hosted by the Jackson-Vinton County Farm Bureau at the Jackson County Fairgrounds Dec. 13. The county Farm Bureau and FFA students from Oak Hill and Jackson high schools, along…
Amy Beth Graves - Dec. 2, 2020
Mahoning Farm Bureau helps secure PPE, promotes buying from local farm markets
When the pandemic first hit in Ohio, Debbie Pifer knew her year-round farm market, White House Fruit Farm, was going to be busy. She also knew that she and other agricultural businesses in Mahoning County were going to need a…
Kathy Gray - Nov. 24, 2020
Students work to feed, change the world
The United Nations’ challenge to a Cincinnati-area high school class was grandiose: Come up with a way to end hunger and poverty in the world. But instead of dismissing the challenge as impossible, teacher Tom O’Neill’s information technology students at…
Lynn Snyder - Oct. 5, 2020
Apply for 2021 YAP Grants by Nov. 20
Once again, Farm Credit Mid-America is providing grant funding to support Young Agricultural Professionals programming. Interested groups must apply by Nov. 20, 2020. Eight $500 grants will go to local YAP groups and two $500 grants will go to Collegiate…
Eileen Eisenhauer - Sept. 8, 2020
Richland County names 2020 scholarship recipients
Richland County Names 2020 Scholarship Recipients
Nationwide Insurance - July 28, 2020
3 Ohio fire departments awarded rescue tubes
Nationwide’s Nominate Your Fire Department Contest aims to address the lack of specialized resources available to rural fire departments that are responding to bin entrapments.
Ohio Farm Bureau Staff - July 24, 2020
County Farm Bureaus bring meat to the masses
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,…
Jaclyn Krymowski - July 17, 2020
All about community at County Line Produce Auction
One of the places to be in West Salem on a warm summer evening is at the intersection of OH-301 and County Road 500. In the summer of 2019, crowds gathered under the green tin roof of an open barn…
Amy Beth Graves - July 13, 2020
Investment in fair buildings can revitalize region
Revamping Pickaway County fairgrounds spurs economic development The excitement in the air was electric. A long line of vehicles waited every day to get in to see the new fairgrounds in Pickaway County. Even though half of the fair was…