Taxing concerns
The American Farm Bureau Federation, along with 46 state Farm Bureaus and 280 organizations representing family-owned agribusinesses, sent a letter in September to congressional leaders urging them to...
View ArticleNew Ohio initiatives to address farm stress
A new federal grant awarded to the Ohio Department of Agriculture (ODA) will support and enhance several initiatives that address farm stress in Ohio. In partnership with Ohio State University...
View ArticleHigh stakes for ag in D.C. debates
By Matt Reese With harvest in full swing, the attention of America’s farmers is not on policy debates in Washington, D.C., but there are some significant potential agricultural implications. “Get your...
View ArticleFACA encouraged by USDA Climate-Smart Agriculture and Forestry Partnership...
The Food and Agriculture Climate Alliance (FACA) is encouraged by USDA’s recent announcement inviting proposals to advance voluntary climate-smart farming and forestry practices. The alliance is...
View ArticleUSDA offers assistance to protect privately-owned agricultural lands
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) encourages people and groups wanting to protect agricultural lands, and grasslands to consider enrolling their property into conservation easements. This year,...
View ArticleJanuary advocacy
By Matt Reese My 4-year-old nephew Michael is well versed in the subtleties of personal advocacy. On a recent stay at his grandparents, Michael had apparently seen evidence of the need for his...
View ArticleUSDA announces inaugural Federal Advisory Committee on Urban Agriculture
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack selected 12 members to serve on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) inaugural Secretary’s Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture to provide input on policy...
View ArticleOhio Women in Agriculture Conference
Ohio State University (OSU) Extension will host the 7th Annual East Ohio Women in Agriculture Conference. The conference is planned for Friday, March 25 from 9:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. at Ohio FFA Camp...
View ArticleWho is getting paid to kill our planet? Ask an otter
By Matt Reese In 2021 a beaver dam was discovered on my family’s farm in Hancock County in Ottawa Creek, which is in the Blanchard River Watershed and part of the Western Lake Erie Basin Watershed....
View ArticleOhio agriculture groups share recommendations for Expo Center site
Emphasizing that agriculture is one of the largest and most important economic sectors in Ohio, nine major Ohio agriculture groups released recommendations to modernize the Ohio Expo Center and State...
View ArticleFarmers “surviving” in Ukraine
By Matt Reese and Dale Minyo In the next few weeks farmers in the United States will be turning their attention to the details of the weather, field conditions and getting seeds in the ground in a...
View ArticleA spring of war
By Matt Reese Retired Ohio State University Extension agronomist Harold Watters has been working with Ukrainian farmers and agronomists for over a decade. He has traveled to Ukraine many times to teach...
View ArticleThe Big 10 of Ohio agriculture
By Dusty Sonnenberg, CCA, Ohio Field Leader, a project of the Ohio Soybean Council and soybean check-off Agriculture is very important to Ohio’s economy. Annually the Food and Agriculture industry...
View ArticleWinter meeting highlights from Ohio State’s Precision Ag Corner
By John Fulton Spring has arrived and attention has turned to planting and spraying. It was great be back in-person for many of the winter meetings. It was refreshing to see people and get to visit...
View ArticleScience continues to move food production forward
By Don “Doc” Sanders Please allow me to enlighten you, in case you’re not aware of the great work of Norman Borlaug, the American Nobel Prize-winning plant scientist of the ‘60s and ‘70s. Borlaug was...
View ArticleBiden addresses agriculture and tackles food prices
From an Illinois farm in May, President Joe Biden highlighted measures meant to increased crop production in the face of global crop and food stresses brought on by the Russian invasion of Ukraine....
View ArticleSEC overreach could put family farms at risk
By Zippy Duvall, American Farm Bureau president Over 2 million farms dot our nation’s landscape, across all 50 states and in territories like Puerto Rico. You can find farmers and ranchers raising...
View ArticleWilmington College celebrating 75 years of agriculture
As many as 150 alumni and friends of Wilmington College’s agriculture program are expected to attend the Diamond Jubilee on Saturday, June 18 in a celebration of ag’s 75 years as one of the...
View ArticleUrban ag meeting with USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) encourages urban producers and others to attend the second public meeting of the Federal Advisory Committee for Urban Agriculture and Innovative Production on...
View ArticleWater quality update for Ohio
By Matt Reese The agal bloom predictions are again coming in low for Lake Erie in 2022, good news for the Lake, the people who rely upon it and the farmers who often get the blame for its problems. The...
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