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It's time to catch up with OSU's Farm Office team for our monthly Farm Office Live webinar. Join us this Friday, February 21 at 10:00 a.m. to hear legal and farm management updates for Ohio agriculture. Our line up this month includes these topics:
2025 Farm Bill Sign-up
Dairy Margin Coverage Sign-up
"Sowing Seeds for Success" is the theme of the 2025 Small Farm Conference hosted by OSU Extension on March 8, 2025. The conference will take place at the Shisler Center on OSU's Wooster campus.
Traditional communication methods are a thing of the past. With instant access to email, social media, text messages, websites, and video calls, digital communication is now the primary way individuals and organizations connect. In this digital age, emojis have become a key form of expression. Traditional contracts, once reliant on handwritten signatures, have now expanded to include electronic signatures under federal and state law.
Drones, or more accurately named Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), have helped provide new methods of pesticide applications and agronomic data collection to assist farmers with productivity and efficiency. Yet the possibility of unknown drones flying over a farm property can cause concerns. Recent conversations and sightings of drones in rural areas have producers raising questions such as “what can I do about suspicious drone activity” and “can I shoot down a drone over my property?” Federal and state laws provide answers to these questions.
This article marks the beginning of a new series, Principles of Government, where we explore key legal concepts shaping public discourse. Our goal is to provide a clear, unbiased, and nonpolitical explanation of these issues, allowing readers to form their own opinions on the social, political, and economic impacts. As new developments arise, we will continue expanding this series to keep you informed.
The new presidential administration has raised the possibility of enacting tariffs, leading many to ask us how tariffs work and how they will affect agriculture. The tariff power is one of those topics that might have us reaching back to the last civics or government class we took and raising some questions. For example, what is the source of tariff authority, when can the government levy a tariff, and how does the tariff process play out?
Originally, I reported that beneficial ownership information ("BOI") reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act ("CTA") were back in effect after the SCOTUS decision in the Texas Top Cop Shop case. However, that was not the full story.
The Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”) has issued its decision concerning the nationwide injunction against the Corporate Transparency Act (“CTA”) and its beneficial ownership information (“BOI”) reporting requirements.
By: David L. Marrison, Field Specialist, Farm Management, Barry Ward, Director of the OSU Income Tax Schools, and Jeff Lewis, Attorney and Program Coordinator- OSU Extension.
A couple of years ago, we published a series of posts addressing Long-Term Care (LTC) issues affecting farm families. Although there haven't been major legal changes in LTC, the costs have risen steadily, and eligibility requirements have adjusted to account for these higher expenses. We thought it would be a good time to do an update on LTC costs.
