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Ohio Farm Bureau Foundation hosted its 5^th annual golf outing June 12. According to Foundation Director Dale Arnold, this year’s event was a sellout with 43 foursomes playing to raise money for the foundation.

Held at the Country Club at Muirfield Village in Dublin, the event raised between $15,000 and $20,000 to support measurable agricultural community improvement in Ohio through the support of projects that focus on agricultural education, environmental and economic issues.

This year’s honoree, Dr. Linda Saif, pictured above, accepted her award at the conclusion of the outing. She is a world authority in the field of microbiology and is a faculty member at Ohio State University’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center in Wooster. Her work focuses on viral infections and immune response. She is one of several select scientists helping the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention better understand and possibly create vaccines for the pathogen suspected of causing Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).

Event participants included Farm Bureau members as well as organizations affiliated with agriculture such as agribusiness, energy services, legal firms, business management, insurance and risk management. Nationwide was a major sponsor of the event.

Arnold told participants the money they raised from the 2005 outing was awarded for a total of $15,000 in the foundation’s first round of Agriculture Action and Awareness grants. One grant recipient Arnold noted, the Chesterhill Produce Auction, used the grant funds to enable the auction site to meet Americans with Disabilities Act requirements for handicapped parking spaces and ramp construction and to expand outreach efforts to senior citizens about the auction and what it has to offer them.