With the lagging planting season across Ohio, many fields that should be filled lush green corn and soybeans are instead brown and overtaken by weeds. Thanks to a new $4 million NRCS program, many of those acres will be incentivized by planting a cover crop, including corn and soybeans. Ty Higgins gets all of the details from state Conservationist Terry Cosby in this Ohio Farm Bureau podcast.

If you were unable to plant, is your CAUV designation at risk? Farm Bureau policy counsel Leah Curtis explains the law and what you should do. Plus, an update on the decline in farmland taxes.

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 been involved with in the organization's 100 year history.

On this episode of Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer, we talk to Michael Leach, freelance gardening writer about the overall status of gardening and tips on how the grow something green on your piece of land.

The number of Prevent Plant acres in Ohio will be historic after a devastatingly wet spring. Just how record-breaking will the numbers be in 2019 and what implications will they have for the short and long term for farmers and consumers in Ohio? Ohio Farm Bureau's Ty Higgins and Jimmy Stickley visit with Dr. Carl Zulauf, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Agricultural, Environmental and Development Economics with The Ohio State University about Prevent Plant, MFP2 and new forage and grazing rules in this podcast.

After meeting with farmers in the most impacted areas of the state and after collecting cropping data, gathering planting history and taking photos of the wide-ranging acres of unplanted fields, Ohio FSA has officially requested USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue to make Disaster Declarations for Fulton, Henry and Lucas Counties. Ty Higgins has more with Ohio Farm Bureau's senior director of state and national affairs, Jack Irvin.

It is true that a big chunk of the Midwest has struggled to get the 2019 corn and soybean crops planted in a timely fashion, but none more so than northwest Ohio. Ty Higgins visited with Ohio Farm Bureau's senior director of state and national affairs, Jack Irvin and OFBF organization director for Defiance, Henry, Fulton and Williams Counties, Roy Norman about the lack of planting happening in that part of the state and what area farmers need to know as they made important decisions moving forward.

On this episode of Field Day with Jordan Hoewischer, we talk to Dr. Leah Dorman, Director, Food Integrity & Consumer Engagement at Phibro Animal Health Corporation about her role in the animal health world as a veterinarian and other topics including hormones, antibiotic use and much more.

Adding to the frustration of a late planting season is the uncertainty of what decisions need to be made in order for farmers to have the least damaging financial impact due to negative situations including wet weather and trade wars. Ty Higgins visits with Ben Brown, manager of Ohio State's Farm Management Program and Jason Williamson from Williamson Insurance in northwest Ohio.

If you’re hiring kids to work on the farm this summer, there are a number of rules you need to follow. Farm Bureau policy counsel Leah Curtis runs it all down.