20100202 agchat animal care news

Out-of-state activists have begun their efforts to undo Ohioans’ overwhelming passage of Issue 2. Less than two months after Ohioans approved Issue 2 to create the Ohio Livestock Care Standards Board, lobbyists from Washington, D.C. have declared they know better than Ohio voters, according to John C. (Jack) Fisher, executive vice president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation.

Organic dairy farmers are divided over proposed federal regulations that could require them to keep fewer cows on larger pastures for a longer period of time. Supporters of the rules proposed by the National Organic Standards Board say they would help prevent vast "factory farms" from claiming organic status - and the higher milk prices it confers.