Lierer grows corn, soybeans and hay and manages a small cattle operation in Butler County with her husband, Dave. Grains Council (USGC) as an at-large director. Ohio Corn & Wheat (OCW) is celebrating the election of Gail Lierer to the Board of Directors of the U.S. “My senior year of high school, the farm added close to 1,000 acres, and I made the choice to stay on the farm and commute to a satellite branch campus for college so that I could be on the farm to help every day,” Hummel said in his application.… Continue reading Read More » Together, they have doubled the size and capacity of their operation in the last 15 years. Today, Hummel farms alongside his great uncle and uncle raising corn and soybeans. He is a graduate of Ohio University where he studied business while working full-time on the family farm. He, along with his wife and two sons, reside and farm in central Ohio. Hummel is the fifth generation to carry on the farming tradition in his family. Contestants are judged on the growth of their farm businesses and involvement in Farm Bureau and their community. The contest is designed to help young farmers strengthen their business skills, develop marketing opportunities and receive recognition for their accomplishments. John Hummel of Canal Winchester is the winner of Ohio Farm Bureau’s Outstanding Young Farmer Award for 2022. Their project was titled “Transpiration control for sustainable deep space food production.” The team was advised by Peter Ling and Jane Fife from the Department of Food, Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Ohio State in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). … Continue reading Read More » Ohio State team members Katelyn Sang and Lindsey Shimoda represented their team which also included FABE students Emma Rand and Donny Smith. Seven teams from five universities competed in the first phase of the competition, where only the top three were invited to the ASABE conference to deliver oral presentations about their design in the final phase. The 2022 AGCO National Student Design Competition was a part of the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) 2022 Annual International Meeting. A team of The Ohio State University seniors majoring in food, agricultural and biological engineering (FABE) took home the gold in a national competition focused on the design of engineering projects advancing agriculture.
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