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Is permanent death tax repeal likely? Hard to say

March 17, 2005

WASHINGTON - While in Washington D.C. last week, Ohio Farm Bureau members lobbied for support to repeal the estate tax, often also called the death tax.

Fiddling with farm bill: Budget plan eyes agriculture’s funding

Susan Crowell -

March 17, 2005

WASHINGTON - When President Bush released his 2006 budget proposal Feb. 7, the murmurs started that the proposed cuts would pry open the 2002 farm bill.

CAFTA pivotal to future of U.S. trade agreements

Susan Crowell -

March 17, 2005

WASHINGTON - When you talk agriculture in Washington these days, you talk exports. Free

Court opens manure plans to public

Susan Crowell -

March 10, 2005

A Feb. 28 decision that affects agriculture has been largely overshadowed by other news. But farms need to know about it.

Amazing, all that play and no injury

Judith Sutherland -

March 10, 2005

Farm safety was constantly a part of our dialogue over the course of my growing up years, and though I am sure we turned deaf ears to it at the time, I now can understand the enormity of it.

State ag directors take a whack at CAFTA and White House

Alan Guebert -

March 10, 2005

It was an embarrassing moment for the White House and its free trade acolytes. There, hat-in-hand before the agriculture commissioners, secretaries and directors of each state and four U.

Family business meetings – Make a schedule, stick to it, be open

Dairy Excel -

March 10, 2005

It is no secret that managing a family business has its ups and downs. Some family members may not have a desire to be involved in the business, while others want to understand and manage the business, but have never been given the opportunity to participate in making decisions.

Three Cheers For The Coach

Laurie Marlatt Steeb -

March 10, 2005

A park pavilion covered the closest dry haven for the leggy teens who intermittently showed for practice.

Selling out

Kymberly Foster Seabolt -

March 10, 2005

I didn't set out to become a sell-out. I'm just saying. For the record and all. I had no intention of becoming an impersonal cog in the corporate machine.