NEW PARIS — State Rep. Rodney Creech of Preble County, received the “CAUV Defender Award” at the recent Farm Forum hosted by U.S. Congressman Warren Davidson, Saturday, March 4, at National Trails Schools.
Creech has served in the Ohio General Assembly since first being elected in 2020, and represents all of Preble County and portions of Montgomery and Butler Counties.
Creech was recently named chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and previously served as a Preble County Commissioner. He is a strong advocate of agriculture and of farm and woodland owners rights to “reasonable real estate taxes” based on a property’s “use” value, rather than it’s “speculative” sales or so called “fair market value,”which is often influenced by foreign entity purchases.
Creech has pledged to support the Current Agricultural Use Valuation (CAUV) Law, and was presented the “CAUV Defender Award.” for his efforts. The award was presented to him by farmer-attorney Ted Finnarn of Darke County, who helped to write the original CAUV Law back in 1974-76, and has served on the Ohio Department of Taxation’s CAUV Advisory Committee ever since, for a record 47 years.
Finnarn, who is sometimes referred to as “Mr. CAUV,” was recently named by President Biden to be the Chairman of the State of Ohio Farm Services Administration.
Watch for additional coverage of the Farm Forum in an upcoming edition of The Register-Herald.
