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Support the Federal Milk Marketing Act and help farmers

Editor: The Federal Milk Marketing Improvement Act of 2011 has been revised and is at the legislative council getting into the proper format. Once again our farmers are facing more difficult times and we need to make the right changes before it is too late for most of them. Proposals are being brought forth again [...]

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Factory funding — a humane operation?

Editor: Less than halfway through 2011 and already we see animal rights organizations proclaiming victory in our state. It is always amazing just what factory funding can do, how money can trump science and years of proven success. For anyone not familiar with the term, it’s when you gather up huge sums of money to [...]

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LETTER: HSUS takes over Livestock Care Standards Board

Editor: So it’s happened. The radical vegan, anti-consumer Humane Society of the United States has successfully taken over the voter-created Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board hock, stock and flock. It’s hard to believe that the board voted unanimously to adopt rules governing the housing of veal calves dictated by the fanatical leaders of the HSUS. [...]

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Ohio’s estate tax is pointless and should be eliminated

Editor: Legislation in the general assembly aims at eliminating Ohio’s death tax. Ohio is one of 17 states collecting an estate tax. Ohio also has the lowest threshold in the nation before the tax kicks in — an estate value of $338,333. Ohio collected about $340 million in estate tax revenues in 2009, 80 per [...]

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United Local’s bond issue: Clearing up misconceptions

Editor: United Local school district residents have the opportunity to vote May 3 on a 3.92 mill bond issue for $9.75 million. If approved, United would partner with the Ohio School Facilities Commission to build a new K-12 building. The OSFC would pay 79 percent of the $38 million cost and United residents would pay [...]

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Complaining won’t get the job done

Editor: Quite recently, I read that politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered, if both Democrats and Republicans are against deficits, inflation and high taxes, then why do we have deficits, inflation and high taxes? You and I don’t propose a federal [...]

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Not where I come from…

Editor: Where I come from, we farmers care about each other — regardless of what type of operation or husbandry practices we use. We help each other, support each other, and are concerned for each others well being. Obviously, the farmers on the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board are not where I come from. Not [...]

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Reader: Vote yes for United Local bond issue

Editor: United Local has a unique opportunity to gain funding to replace parts of the campus which are many years old and in need of replacement such as the boiler system, roof and older and outdated classrooms. United’s share of this cost will require a 3.92 bond issue on the May 2011 ballot (a cost [...]

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Ethanol: An economic success story doesn’t tell whole story

Editor: The article titled, Ethanol: An economic success story, (April 7, 2011, issue of Farm and Dairy) does not seem to tell the whole story. This has been typical of many “reports,” not only about ethanol, but many other topics in which just part of the information is given. The author of the story (unidentified) [...]

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Reader: Put an end to nuclear nightmare

Editor: For more than 30 years, I’ve been warning anyone who would listen about the dangers and potential environmental destruction of nuclear power. Very few people would listen, very few cared, but now just maybe, the tables have turned after the disaster in Japan. Back in the late 1960s, Richard Nixon predicted there would be [...]

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Reader: Does Gov. Kasich get it?

Editor: Does Gov. Kasich get it? It’s a question many animal owners are asking themselves right now. We’re not just talking exotics, we’re talking about dogs, cats, farm and all animal owners. One thing we know for sure is that Nebraska’s governor gets it. In an article in the York News-Times, Gov. Heineman called out [...]

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Ohio: the new veganist state

Editor: On January 6, 2011, the last day of Teddy Strickland, he signed the ban on exotic animals in Ohio to fulfill his backroom deal with Humane Society of the United States and Ohio Farm Bureau. The sellout was with poultry, swine, veal, dog breeders and the exotic animal industry in Ohio. Mr. Ex-Governor Strickland [...]

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Congress serves us best when members are asleep

While Americans still want their government to leave them alone, most seem to want everybody else to be regulated.

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Reader: Research drilling before making decisions

Editor: I was disappointed by the interview with Tom Murphy on the Marcellus gas drilling (Agriculture changing as Marcellus Shale drilling gains ground). Today with the media being scrutinized for bias reporting, I would expect Farm and Dairy to do a better job researching a topic before they publish this stuff. There are a lot [...]

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Farmers must stand united

Editor: I’d like to address the continued criticism that Farm Bureau has taken over the HSUS compromise, as I see that many people are still upset by it. Farm Bureau leadership made the decision they thought they had to make at the time, whether you agree with it or not, it was made. How many [...]

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Speech, it’s not free anymore

Editor: A cold day has come now that citizens all over Ohio can no longer express their opinions without fear of retribution from certain animal rights organizations. Now in order to be able to exercise your First Amendment right to freedom of speech, it can only be done so as long as it doesn’t include [...]

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Ohio should ban Rover, too

Editor: The ban on exotic animals in Ohio is for public safety. So let’s ban dogs. The Ohio Department of Health says there were 15,021 dog bites in 2009. Also ban Fluffy. Cats bit 3,339 times in 2009. There were four exotic animals attacks in the last 14 years says the Humane Society of the [...]

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Humane Society of Columbiana County asks for support

Editor: The following information about the Humane Society of Columbiana County (HSCC) was published recently. One fact needs to be made clear. This service is provided to the citizens of Columbiana County over the land area of 532 square miles at no cost to taxpayers. HSCC operates totally by private donation dollars and does not [...]

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Voters should be baffled by Livestock Care Board’s actions

Editor: Many Ohioans that voted for the existence of the Livestock Care Board are puzzled. Voters were led to believe that the Care Board would carefully examine existing animal husbandry practices, making changes only in those rare cases where change was justified. The first year seems to have produced quite the opposite. First Strickland and [...]

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Animal-care policy and Gov. Kasich

Editor: On Nov. 3, 2009, the Ohio voters spoke loud and clear. By a landslide 67-37 vote they authorized the creation of a livestock board to regulate animal care in Ohio. This was in response to the plea of those who introduced the ballot initiative to keep animal-care policy in the hands of Ohioans and [...]

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