Ohio’s 2022 Water Quality Status Report released
The 2022 Water Quality Status Report highlights how signature water quality initiatives have had major roles improving and protecting clean water, one of the state’s most valuable resources.
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Healthy water is our state’s most important natural resource and Ohio’s farmers care deeply about protecting it. Across Ohio, farmers are taking up the call to work together to improve our water quality. As natural stewards of soil and water, farmers across Ohio know they play a significant role in protecting water resources for Ohio’s families, schools, businesses and communities. Ohio Farm Bureau, along with our agriculture partners, will continue to work together to find tangible solutions to the state’s water quality challenges and demonstrate how Ohio can simultaneously maintain clean water and productive farming.
Download a copy of our Water Quality Status Report.
Visit the Blanchard River Demonstration Farms Network website to learn more about on-farm practices and research being done in Ohio to improve soil health and water quality.
Sealing abandoned water wells
Abandoned wells may seem harmless but, if they are not managed correctly, they can create a dangerous situation.
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Summer 2022 Community Council Discussion Guide
Discussion topics include drainage management and Conservancy Districts in Ohio.
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Water quality gains flow through soil tests
Farmers in Ohio are increasing soil sampling and managing soil nutrients more closely, leading to a gradual decrease in high soil test phosphorus levels that can lead to water quality problems.
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Across the Table: Continue to tell your story
Our collective voices help us protect the future of agriculture and the promise to pass our farms to the next generation.
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Water quality and agriculture: The rest of the story
A new film about water quality in Lake Erie skips over all of the advancements being made by farmers in northwest Ohio and beyond.
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Our Ohio Weekly: New report gauges water quality efforts in Ohio
The OACI Assessment survey results establish a baseline of adoption for various farming practices in the Lower Maumee watershed.
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OACI Assessment Survey Report reveals conservation progress, areas of opportunity
The survey results establish a baseline of adoption for various farming practices in the Lower Maumee watershed.
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Ohio Farm Bureau submits WOTUS comments to EPA
Farm Bureau is urging EPA to recognize the burden that this overreaching regulation places on farmers and ranchers, and keep the term ‘navigable’ in the Clean Water Act regulations.
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Upcoming meetings offer details about H2Ohio
Ohio Farm Bureau is encouraging members to learn more about the H2Ohio application process and the program’s conservation practices by attending these meetings.
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