Webers a finalist for OFBF Outstanding Young Farm CouplePublished on 11/21/2007 For Immediate Release COLUMBUS, Ohio (OFBF) – Ohio Farm Bureau Federation (OFBF) has announced Brandon and Julie Weber of Jackson as a finalist couple of its 2007 Outstanding Young Farmer contest. The award recognizes individuals or couples age 35 or younger for their accomplishments in their farming operations and their leadership in the agricultural community. The winner of the contest will be announced at the OFBF annual meeting Nov. 28 to 30 in Columbus. The Webers are the eighth generation to own and operate the same family farm since 1835. They harvest hay, pumpkins, sweet corn and tomatoes and raise and sell Angus beef cattle for freezer meat. They also operate a high tunnel greenhouse. Their goals include hosting more tours, constructing ponds for irrigation, hosting a corn maze and haunted barn and educating consumers about high tunnel tomatoes. Both have served as Jackson/Vinton County Advisory Council/Young Farm co-chairs and on the membership, policy development and youth fundraising committees. Julie is a past county board trustee and a current Farm Bureau Action Team Leader. The couple has three children, Sara, 10, Tyler, 8, and Blake, 5. The winner will receive an expense-paid trip to the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting in New Orleans in January to represent Ohio in the national contest. The state winner also receives a $1,000 purchase certificate at Grainger Industrial Supply courtesy of Farm Credit Services of Mid America, a year’s free lease on a Kubota M-series tractor courtesy of Kubota, $500 from Dodge Trucks and a $250 product voucher to any NAPA store courtesy of Valvoline. All finalists receive a commemorative chime clock from Ohio Farm Bureau.
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