Thursday, U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) delivered remarks at the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation's Legislative Conference breakfast in Washington, D.C., and heard from farmers what their priorities are for the 2023 Farm Bill. Brown discussed a number of topics, including provisions secured in the 2018 Farm Bill, the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, and how the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act will benefit Ohio agriculture, rural development conservation, and urban forestry.
"More and more people are finally beginning to see what we have known for a long time: it's better for the long-term health of our economy and our communities when we produce more in America," said Brown. "Whether it's semiconductors from Asia or beef from Brazil, there's a cost to long supply chains -- and there's a benefit to Ohioans when we bring them home."
Brown recently met with local farmers, officials from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and agriculture stakeholders in Chesterland, Grove City and Wooster to learn what priorities Ohio farmers have for the 2023 Farm Bill. Brown, the first Ohioan to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee in nearly 50 years, will help write the upcoming Farm Bill.
Brown has long been a leader for Ohio's rural communities. Before the passage of the Farm Bill in 2008, 2013, and 2018, Brown held roundtables around Ohio to hear from farmers and rural communities about what they wanted to see in the bill, and successfully secured a number of Ohio-specific provisions that were important to the state's farmers.
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