Each year the Henry, Fulton, Williams, and Defiance County Farm Bureaus send representatives to Washington D.C. for what they call the President’s trip. The individuals attending could be a President, Vice President or county representative of each County’s Farm Bureau and represent all 88 of Ohio’s Counties. We met with the President of the Ohio Farm Bureau Bill Patterson and President of the American Farm Bureau Zippy Duvall. Mr. Duvall was our keynote address speaker, followed by speeches from Senator Bernie Moreno and Senator
Jon Husted. After that meeting, we then were to meet with one of our local Representatives which was to be Rep. Marcy Kaptur, however, Rep. Kaptur was not in that day and we met with her Aids instead. Some Issues discussed were Trade with the E.U., the Farm Bill, data centers, Fertilizer Co. monopolies, and regulations to the SNAP and school lunches programs and how they are attached to the Farm Bill and affect it. One of the main big topics that was discussed was about data centers and how the government wants to promote data or AI, and how you can control the data centers on the local level with zoning ordinances and taxes. This was some of the main reasons we were sent to Washington D.C., to lobby for these issues and more and to make our Representatives in Washington aware of the issues concerning farmers.
