Joe Cornely - Oct. 18
Science has moved to the forefront in the ongoing discussion of how agriculture can best protect water quality, but politics and angry activists have not disappeared. Legislators and public officials at two separate meetings recently heard about the state of…
Amanda Domsitz - Oct. 15
Two wins occurred on the legal front for farmers who faced potentially troubling rulings dealing with agriculture and water quality. Farm Bureau policy counsel Leah Curtis shares the good news. Some excerpts: Joe Cornely: There have been two recent developments…
After heavy rain events fell on northwest Ohio throughout the spring and early summer, it wasn’t surprising that a significant algal bloom would surface on the Western Lake Erie Basin. When it did, Henry County Farm Bureau member and farmer…
Ohio Farm Bureau’s Director of Water Quality and Research Jordan Hoewischer talked with Dr. Jessica D’Ambrosio of The Nature Conservancy earlier this summer. On this edition of Field Day, Hoewischer and D’Ambrosio discussed the role of The Nature Conservancy and how the…
Joe Cornely - Sept. 6
Farm Bureau and others have successfully pushed back against Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s attempt to exclude agriculture from the water quality conversation. On July 11, Kasich issued an executive order that asked the Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission to…
Joe Cornely - Aug. 31
As Lake Erie water issues escalated this summer, strident environmental activists made it increasingly difficult to have a rational discussion about the issue and science-based solutions. Ann Arbor’s public radio station invited Ohio Farm Bureau to participate in a panel…
Agricultural retailers, researchers, farmers and others were in attendance to discuss the latest research on nutrient management, water quality, conservation efforts, and experience field demonstrations. Ohio Farm Bureau was a sponsor of the event.
Ohio Farm Bureau, including 7,000 farmers who would be directly impacted by an executive order signed by Gov. John Kasich last week, will finally have their voices heard in the process, thanks in large part to the efforts of Farm…
Editors: The following is Ohio Farm Bureau’s statement following today’s action by the Ohio Soil and Water Conservation Commission. The commission referred to subcommittee the governor’s request that portions of the Western Lake Erie Basin watershed be declared “in distress.”…
NOAA and its research partners predict that western Lake Erie will experience a harmful algal bloom (HAB) of cyanobacteria this summer that is smaller than in 2017 but larger than the mild bloom in 2016. Scientists expect this year’s bloom…