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Ohio Farmers Union outline policy priorities

The president of the Ohio Farmers Union (OFU) says proposed farmland tax reform is one of the top policy priorities for the group this year.

Joe Logan tells Brownfield they support bills in the Ohio House and Senate that would update the Current Agricultural Use Valuation (CAUV) formula.

“Our members across the state have received tax increases in the two, three, four hundred percent range over the last several years,” said Logan. “That is just something we cannot tolerate in an era when commodity prices have absolutely collapsed.”

The Ohio Farmers Union is also calling on the Kasich Administration to change state regulations on disposal of fracking waste. OFU policy recommends any new fracking waste disposal wells be built and regulated under the more stringent Class-One standards.

Ohio Farmers Union 2016 policy priorities