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06/06/2008
OSC to Elect Five Trustees
Contact:
John A. Lumpe
Executive Director
614-476-3100
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 6, 2008
Ohio Soybean Council to Elect Five Trustees
Worthington, OH - The Ohio Soybean Council Board of Trustee elections will be held in five districts this summer. Districts up for election include:
District 3 - Ashtabula, Cuyahoga, Erie, Geauga, Lake, Huron, Lorain, Medina, Portage, Summit, and Trumbull Counties
District 4 - Allen, Paulding, and Van Wert Counties
District 6 - Crawford, Seneca and Wyandot Counties
District 11 - Clark, Greene, and Madison Counties
At Large
To be eligible for election to the Ohio Soybean Council, you must live in a county in the districts listed, be a soybean producer engaged in the growing of soybeans in the State of Ohio, who owns or shares the ownership and risk of loss of such soybeans at any time during the three year period immediately preceding November 15 of the current year. Those eligible producers (spouses who jointly produce soybeans are considered to be a ''family'' and are considered to be one person) who have contributed to the soybean checkoff and have submitted a petition with the signatures of 15 eligible soybean producers who reside in the respective district shall be determined candidates for election.
Petitions may be obtained from the Ohio Soybean Council by calling 614-476-3100. Completed petitions must be returned to the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Attn: Bruce Benedict, 8995 East Main Street, Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068-3399. All petitions must be postmarked by July 11 and received by July 18, 2008 to be eligible for consideration.
Headquartered in Worthington, the Ohio Soybean Council is governed by a 17-member volunteer farmer board, which directs the Soybean Promotion and Research Program. The program's primary goal is to improve soybean profitability by targeting research and development projects through the investment of farmer-contributed funds.
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