Meet Trustee Alyssa Zdobinski
Alyssa Zdobinski has been a Farm Bureau member for two years and now serves on the Preble County board of trustees.
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Preble County welcomes new COA
Carissa Knapp has joined the Preble County office and has big plans for membership.
Hamilton, Montgomery, and Preble County Farm Bureaus is pleased to announce its newly hired County Office Administrator Carissa Knapp.
As county office administrator, Knapp will assist the counties and the organization director in developing, maintaining, and executing successful programs and services that meet the needs of members with efficiency and accuracy. She will be responsible for developing the membership marketing plan as well as creating content for our website and social media. Knapp will be instrumental in serving the needs of our members and building relationships which could result in new memberships.
Knapp is a resident of Farmersville and recently graduated with an associate’s degree in event planning from Sinclair. Upon graduation, she opened her own part-time business called byLouise to assist her clients with planning every step of their important life events. Knapp has 5 years of experience as a sales and marketing manager, and worked for Kosins Tents & Events where she established relationships with festivals and business accounts, designing promotional materials and working with other vendors for Dayton-area events.
We are excited to have Carissa’s unique experience. Her belief in the role that agriculture plays within our community aligns her with our Farm Bureau mission, “of working together for Ohio farmers to advance agriculture and strengthen our communities.”
Please help us welcome Carissa Knapp to the field of agriculture and our team at the Farm Bureau.
I'm eternally grateful for the support Ohio Farm Bureau scholarships provided in helping me turn my dreams into reality.
I appreciate the benefit of having a strong voice in my corner. The extras that are included in membership are wonderful, but I'm a member because of the positive impact to my local and state agricultural communities.
I see the value and need to be engaged in the community I live in, to be a part of the decision-making process and to volunteer with organizations that help make our community better.
Farm Bureau involvement has taught me how to grow my professional and leadership experience outside of the workforce and how to do that in a community-centric way.
With not growing up on a farm, I’d say I was a late bloomer to agriculture. I feel so fortunate that I found the agriculture industry. There are so many opportunities for growth.
Labor has always been an issue, mainly because we are a seasonal operation. So that's a challenge finding somebody who only wants to work three months out of a year, sometimes up to six months.
Knowing that horticulture is under the agriculture umbrella and having Farm Bureau supporting horticulture like it does the rest of ag is very important.
If it wasn't for Farm Bureau, I personally, along with many others, would not have had the opportunity to meet with our representatives face to face in Washington.
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