Ohio Farm Bureau is the textbook definition of a grassroots organization. Policies and issues that the state’s largest farm organization takes up on the behalf of agriculture are developed and voted on by their members. The process for putting future policies together started last month when Twenty Ohio Farm Bureau leaders began serving on the 2020 Ohio Farm Bureau Federation Policy Development Committee. The committee collects and organizes public policy recommendations from county Farm Bureaus and presents the final policy suggestions to be voted on by Ohio Farm Bureau’s delegates during the state annual meeting in December. On this Our Ohio Weekly, meet 2 of the Committee members and hear about some of the issues they are learning all about.

Guests - Dr. Larry Antosch, Sr. Director of Policy Development and Environmental Policy



OFBF Board Member Adele Flynn (District 3) N. Central Ohio



OFBF member Abram Klopfenstein from Paulding County




American Farm Bureau Director of Grassroots Outreach Michael Sistak




USDA-NRCS, Ohio's Doug Deardorff