Ohio agriculture, explained from the ground up.
Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast is a practical interview program about agriculture as work, business, and community infrastructure. Recent conversations move from student workforce pipelines and farm branding to rural veterinary access, USDA programs, grain bin safety, and power demand from data centers.
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Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast covers Ohio agriculture from the level where policy, finance, safety, and daily farm operations meet. It is interview-driven and practical. Recent episodes suggest a show less interested in personality than in usefulness for farmers, Farm Bureau members, rural leaders, and people working around the food supply chain. Workforce development is a major thread. An episode on Explore Ag looks at how high school students can test agricultural career paths through one-day and week-long experiences, including agricultural communications and region-specific programs. The show treats agriculture as broader than production alone. It makes room for broadcasting, social media, suppliers, employees, public perception, and community relationships. Farm storytelling becomes a business issue in the conversation with Emily Sword, where brand is tied to reputation, first impressions, farm vehicles, logos, and how workers represent an operation in public. Other episodes turn toward shortages and stress points. Large animal veterinarian access is presented as essential to livestock health and the long-term food supply chain. USDA Rural Development and Farm Service Agency conversations explain grants, local office resources, dairy margin coverage, drought response, and support for farmers trying to grow or stabilize their operations. The show also does not treat farm safety as a side note. Its grain bin safety episode connects National Grain Bin Safety Week, rescue tubes, rural fire department training, community education, and the human reality of long rescue efforts. Policy coverage stays close to consequences. State House meetings, Farm Bureau priorities, farm bill questions, and federal agency changes are discussed through what they may mean for farmers and rural communities. The data center episode widens the lens further, asking how new large electrical loads can be added without unfairly shifting transmission costs to existing consumers. Across its episodes, the show’s strongest habit is translation: taking agencies, programs, safety campaigns, and infrastructure debates and making them legible for people whose operations may be directly affected.
Made for: Farm Bureau members, Ohio farmers, agribusiness operators, rural community leaders, and agriculture students will get the most from it. It also suits listeners who follow farm policy, food production, rural infrastructure, or agricultural workforce issues.
What sets it apart: The show keeps big agricultural issues tied to practical consequences for Ohio farms and communities. Its interviews often connect statewide or federal programs to specific decisions farmers, students, fire departments, and local offices may face.
The Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast gets to the heart of what is happening throughout Ohio agriculture. Hear about important issues impacting Ohio Farm Bureau members and their communities as Ryan Matthews visits with a wide variety of experts who cover farming, farm policy and food production across the value chain.
Based on 4 episodes we listened to · September 2026
It translates agricultural policy, lending, infrastructure, and conservation research into concrete consequences for Ohio farm operations.
Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast follows the money, policy, and infrastructure decisions shaping Ohio agriculture. Ryan Matthews and Ty Higgins use interviews with agency officials, researchers, cooperative leaders, and agricultural lenders to connect institutional decisions with farm…
A data center wants power; Ryan Matthews asks if your electric bill gets bigger.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical look at how USDA and FSA changes are landing on Ohio farms.
The episode tracks USDA and Farm Service Agency office restructuring alongside policy updates tied to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, while keeping the focus on the strain farmers face as they wait for longer-term answers.
Farm policy and electric-rate questions meet in a practical look at who pays when growth drives new infrastructure.
Ohio Farm Bureau's latest conversation starts with hundreds of members at the State House in Columbus, where they meet legislators to press priority issues and describe the pressure they face on their farms and in their communities. Dr.
Water quality is framed here as a practical, data-backed effort built on conservation, patience, and local results.
The episode is at its best when it turns recent studies into plainspoken, useful guidance. Dr. Jay Martin and Jordan Hoescher connect the 38% phosphorus reduction in the pilot watershed to the larger point, especially because smaller movement had been seen in other watersheds.
A practical look at how AgCredit is helping northern Ohio farmers manage tighter farm economics.
Ohio farm economics get a close-to-home check-in as Farm Bureau host Ty Higgins talks with AgCredit CEO Brian Ricker about the lender's outlook for 2025.
A farm's reputation grows through the everyday encounters that make its story familiar.
The episode frames a farm's brand as something shaped less by a slogan than by the everyday ways people meet the operation. Ohio Farm Bureau's conversation with Emily Sword of Inspire PR keeps reputation close to the ground, connecting it to neighbors, community members, the…
Odd questions, followed patiently down to the incentives.
Family grief, public questions, and the responsibilities of care.
This episode of the Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast features two segments.
Host Ryan Matthews interviews Emily Sword, Vice President of Inspire PR, about the importance of storytelling and branding for farms.
Leah Hedricks defines Ohio agritourism as farm-based educational, historical, or recreational activity, from pumpkin patches to tree farms.
The Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast’s “Planning today for the farm’s tomorrow” explains how early succession planning gives farm families more options.
Laramie Sanquest cites a 127% rise in ATV/UTV fatalities in 2024, reaching about 632 deaths, including 119 children under 16.
Ohio Farm Bureau host Ryan Matthews and Ohio State economist Ian Sheldon explain how USMCA modernized NAFTA through digital trade, labor rules, environmental provisions, automobile rules of origin, and stronger dispute resolution.
Ohio Farm Bureau Podcast interviews Ohio gubernatorial candidate Dr.
Ohio farmers are looking for firmer footing.
Farm Bureau members went straight to Columbus for a State House visit.
Ryan Matthews opens by framing water quality as a steady priority for Ohio Farm Bureau and its agricultural partners.