KINSMAN, Ohio — Former Senator Sherrod Brown has always been comfortable talking with Ohio farmers. As the first Ohioan in nearly 50 years to serve on the Senate Agriculture Committee, he made a habit of meeting them regularly during his three terms in the Senate, especially every couple of years when it came time to draft the Farm Bill.

So, as his campaign begins to return to the U.S. Senate next November in a challenge to Republican Senator Jon Husted, it’s no surprise one of his first stops was a Northeast Ohio farm.

“Every bushel of soybean, whether it’s food grade, feed grade or anything else now has collapsed in price and in value,” Brown was told by Trumbull County Farmer Joe Logan as they gathered at the dining room table of Logan’s farmhouse.

Logan spoke of the headwinds farmer

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