The Ohio Agricultural Landowners Guide[PDF] is available to farmers who want to conserve and protect their land. The 16-page full-color guide summarizes a full range of federal conservation programs, state farmland preservation options and assorted local initiatives.

The guide is funded in large part by a grant from the Ohio Environmental Education Fund of the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency. The grant also will pay for a series of 10 “Traveling Toolbox” workshops around Ohio to distribute the guide and tell landowners about their options and encourage them to get involved in state and local efforts that affect land-use policy.

AFT’s Ohio and national staff compiled the guide, which also includes case studies of ideas and efforts that have been effective: innovative zoning in Clark County, active land trusts around the state and entrepreneurial farm marketing in Wayne County, where the Hartzler family opened the first new dairy processing plant in Ohio in decades.

The Ohio guide is the sixth such publication produced by AFT to assist farmers and landowners. The others are for Kentucky, South Carolina, Connecticut, New York and the Rocky Mountain states. 2,500 printed copies of the guide are available in addition to the PDF version.