Legal with Leah Ohio Farm Bureau

The Supreme Court ruled 9-0 that the EPA went too far with its enforcement of the Clean Water Act, a huge ruling for farmers and landowners that could have a major impact on the Waters of the U.S. Rule. To talk more about it is Ohio Farm Bureau Policy Counsel, Leah Curtis, for this Legal with Leah.

Direct marketing at farmers markets is a great way to sell your products and connect with your local community and we have seen a booming interest when it comes to selling and buying locally over the past 3 years. On this Legal with Leah, Ohio Farm Bureau's Policy Counsel, Leah Curtis fills us in on what we need to know as far as licensing goes for selling at a farmers market or even for goods made and sold from home.

Ohio Farm Bureau and the Union County Farm Bureau have been involved in a court case, Columbia Gas of Ohio v. Bailey Family/Arno Renner Trust, with potential impacts to farmland preservation programs. A long awaited decision in that important eminent domain case came out recently and Ohio Farm Bureau Policy Counsel, Leah Curtis, breaks in all down in this Legal with Leah.

A second U.S. District Court ruled to halt the 2023 Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule. This ruling stops implementation of the rule in 24 states, including Ohio. For this Legal with Leah, Ty Higgins visits with Ohio Farm Bureau Policy Counsel, Leah Curtis, about what this means for the rule moving forward.

Despite being around since 1975, the Current Ag Use Valuation program, or CAUV, still has some issues that pop up from time to time. On this Legal with Leah, find out about a recent issue that Farm Bureau helped to resolved at the local level. Plus, Leah gives us a heads up on the fast approaching deadline to sign up for CAUV or renew for 2023.

A request by the State of Ohio to transfer certain regulatory responsibilities covering Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations from the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency to the Ohio Department of Agriculture was recently denied by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Anti-animal agriculture groups claimed this as a win but, in reality as Ohio Farm Bureau policy counsel Leah Curtis lays out in this Legal with Leah, it didn’t change a thing about the livestock permitting process in Ohio.