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Natalie Walston has accepted the position of communications specialist, and Cathy Hoile has been named organization director in Paulding, Putnam and Van Wert counties.

She also will serve as organization director for Hancock County, effective June 1.

Walston will contribute to OFBF's radio efforts and report and write news and feature articles for Buckeye Farm News and Our Ohio. She also will be responsible for internal and external communications projects.

The Marion County native most recently worked as a television talk show host, producer and writer for Ohio Public Radio and Television’s "The State of Ohio", a Statehouse-based television show aired on public television stations throughout the state. For nearly three years, she was a reporter with television station NBC-4 in Columbus and previously worked as a radio anchor and producer at WMUB-FM in Oxford where she also taught a communications class at Miami University. Walston’s reports have been heard on National Public Radio, The Great Lakes Radio Consortium and Voice of America. She also worked for several years at WOSU-AM radio during and after college as a reporter. She graduated from Ohio State University with a bachelor's degree in English.

Hoile formerly was organization director for Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway and Ross counties. She was raised on a family grain and livestock farm near Bowling Green in Wood County. She graduated from Ohio State University with a degree in agriculture and has an American FFA degree. She has been on staff since 2004.