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Date(s) - February 28, 2025
6:00 pm - 9:15 pm

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Women Cultivating Success
Friday, Feb. 28
6 to 9:15 p.m.

The Harvest Barn
6915 Olding Rd. Maria Stein, OH 45860

$40 per person

Registration Deadline: Feb. 15

Women Cultivating Success Brochure

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Or please mail your registration (form within the brochure), postmarked by Feb. 15, with check payable to:

Mercer County Farm Bureau
110 Industrial Drive Suite C
Wapakoneta, OH 45895

For more information call or email: 877-775-7642 or jsmith@ofbf.org

About the conference

Women Cultivating Success celebrates the empowerment of all women. One of the best ways to empower yourself is through education. Half of the proceeds will go toward Choosing Life Pregnancy Resource Center.

Agenda & Speakers

6 p.m. Mix and Mingle
Heavy Hors d’oeuvres & Wine Selections

6:45 p.m. Intro to the Evening

7 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Rose Hartschuh Farm Wife. Mother. Agvocate.
Rose Hartschuh is passionate about helping the public understand what farmers do every day. As a wife and mother, she sees firsthand the challenges and opportunities that come with raising a family on the farm. She also understands that for her children to have the opportunity to continue the family business, the public must appreciate the important role that farmers play in our society. Rose is a former high school agriculture teacher, and now she is a full-time farmer, working alongside her husband and kids, raising livestock and grain in Crawford County. She’s a past Ohio FFA president, an American Farm Bureau Excellence in Agriculture award winner, serves on the Ohio Farm Bureau Board of Trustees and Ohio Beef Council, and chairs the Ohio Expo Commission. She’s just as comfortable in the seat of a tractor as she is in the boardroom, and like so many women in agriculture, coordinating chaos is her hidden superpower.

7:45 p.m. Session 1 : Legacy Planning by Evin Bachelor, Attorney Wright & Moore Law Co., LPA 

Evin Bachelor is an attorney at Wright & Moore Law in Delaware and Purdy Lammers & Schiavone in Celina. Evin focuses in farm succession planning for farmers and landowners across the State.

8:15 p.m. Break

8:30 p.m. Session 2: Value Added Businesses Discussion Panel

Jake and Megan Hein, Chickasaw Cattle Company
Chickasaw Cattle Company is a fourth-generation farming family run by Jake and Megan Hein. They are determined to bring the best quality beef products to their local and neighboring communities.

Kendal Richardson, Unique Roots
Unique Roots Garden Center offers a variety of pottery, house plants, succulents, gifts, and decorative items year round, and seasonally their greenhouses are full of annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, herbs, vegetables and fruits.

Watercutter Farms, Beekeeping & Honey Making
Steve, Mark and Matt Watercutter took an interest in beekeeping and honey making several years ago. They keep a number of hives in Mercer and Darke counties and harvest and bottle honey each year and also make maple syrup when their maple trees are producing good sap.

9:15 p.m. Closing

We thank the following sponsors for making this Empowerment Celebration possible… Gold Sponsors: Brookside Laboratories and Buschur Custom Farm Services Inc.; Silver Sponsors: Citizen National Bank, Cooper Farms Inc., and Farm Credit Mid-America; and Bronze Sponsors: Bambauer Fertilizer & Seed, Inc., Otte AG, LLC, and The Peoples Bank Co.

Mercer County Ag. Education Committee
Theresa Dirksen, Ag & Natural Resource Director
Trevor Eischen, USDA Farm Service Agency
Ariel Hein, Mercer SWCD
Kay Holubik, USDA NRCS
Ryan McMichael, OSU Extension
Jill Smith, Mercer Co. Farm Bureau
Emily Willrath, USDA Farm Loan