Sep 1, 2026 · 23 min · 9 segments
On this episode, Dusty is joined by Brandon Kern, Deputy Executive Director and Senior Policy Director of the Ohio Soybean Association and Ohio Soybean Council as well as Julia Brown, Communications…
Brandon KernGuestDusty SonnenbergHost
Julia BrownGuest
Mackenzie JosephGuestWe want to back up before we talk about Farm Science Review and jump into what just wrapped up.
How'd the tour go? And maybe some of the checkoff presentations that we heard.
stopped in Fayette County down at Bluegrass Farms, and then we also stopped in Dart County at Mark Stuckey's Farm.
Appreciate all three of those locations giving us use of their space for the day.
So in particular with our checkoff segments that we had at each of those three locations, the first one that we did up in Crawford County was a checkoff presentation about a checkoff funded survey that we did, study that we did.
And they looked at the biodiesel and biofuels landscape here in Ohio, kind of where we are at currently, what the opportunities are, how things are labeled.
Is that actually happening in Ohio when there are biodiesel blends happening? Things like that.
So Um, this is really important for us right now because of all of this additional crush expansion that we've been seeing in Ohio.
You know, we're going to have a lot of, uh, oil at our fingertips and what can we do with that? Um, so there's a lot of opportunity to increase our biofuels production here in the state.
That's what Pete was looking into was, um, what is the current situation and where's their opportunity for growth? So that was the checkoff funded presentation that we did at Crawford county in Fayette county.
Because we were at Bluegrass and they are really all about international marketing and exporting, we talked about the trade mission that we had done earlier this year with a couple of our farmers.
We want to back up before we talk about Farm Science Review and jump into what just wrapped up.
How'd the tour go? And maybe some of the checkoff presentations that we heard.
stopped in Fayette County down at Bluegrass Farms, and then we also stopped in Dart County at Mark Stuckey's Farm.
Appreciate all three of those locations giving us use of their space for the day.
So in particular with our checkoff segments that we had at each of those three locations, the first one that we did up in Crawford County was a checkoff presentation about a checkoff funded survey that we did, study that we did.
And they looked at the biodiesel and biofuels landscape here in Ohio, kind of where we are at currently, what the opportunities are, how things are labeled.
Is that actually happening in Ohio when there are biodiesel blends happening? Things like that.
So Um, this is really important for us right now because of all of this additional crush expansion that we've been seeing in Ohio.
You know, we're going to have a lot of, uh, oil at our fingertips and what can we do with that? Um, so there's a lot of opportunity to increase our biofuels production here in the state.
That's what Pete was looking into was, um, what is the current situation and where's their opportunity for growth? So that was the checkoff funded presentation that we did at Crawford county in Fayette county.
Because we were at Bluegrass and they are really all about international marketing and exporting, we talked about the trade mission that we had done earlier this year with a couple of our farmers.
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