Ohio Agricultural Council || Past Hall of Fame Inductees

Ohio Ag Hall of Fame - Past Inductees

2010	Fred L. Dailey—government & agricultural leader Guy R. Flora—sheep industry leader Mary Lou Pfeiffer Saunway—farm broadcasting pioneer Lawrence G. Vance—soil & water conservationist
2009	Roy Allen Wallace—beef genetic breeding pioneer John C. Foltz—government leader A.I. (Irv) Bell—swine farmer & agricultural leader Andrew L. Stevens—agricultural communicator & dairy farmer
2007	Ohio Columbus Barber—agricultural pioneer and industrialist Linus “Lenny” B. Losh—soil and water conservationist Tom Price—hog, cattle and grain farmer Bobby D. VanStavern—business leader
2005	Clarence J. Cunningham—extension leader Neal F. Schirm—Jersey cattle breeder and dairy producer Robert W. Teater—agricultural conservationist John D. Weaver—egg production businessman
2003	L. Eugene Byers—cattle breeder, veterinarian, legislator William James Eyssen—horticulturist Jack C. Foust—cattle breeder and public servant Bill Funderburg—swine breeder and producer
2001	Richard Anderson—agribusiness, retail, processing & mfg. Gene Isler—pork breeder and educator Mark List—agricultural public servant John Mount—agricultural educator
1999	Vernon R. Cahill—educator and meat specialist Ralph Cobey—engineer and farm equipment dealer Pat Leimbach—author and public speaker James Patterson—fruit grower and organizational leader
1997	Arnett J. Gordin—farmer and humanitarian G. Edwin “Ed” Johnson—agricultural communicator C. William Swank—leader and spokesperson for agriculture Vernon L. Tharp, DVM—veterinarian and educator
1995	Clarence Durban—conservationist Clifton Kerns (C.K.) Elliott—agricultural marketer William D. Fulton—horticulturist George W. Smidley—inventor
1993	Floyd Heft—soil and water conservationist Earl Poling—dairy marketer and educator James Utzinger—educator and horticulturist Merlin D. Woodruff—auctioneer
1991	Roy Battles—agriculture communicator Shirley A. Brooks—agricultural liaison assistant Ralph Grimshaw—educator and animal scientist Oscar Share—educator and leader
1989	Louis Bromfield—author and conservationist James E. Dougan—educator and vocational agriculture leader Wilbur A. Gould—educator and food processing leader Fred H. Johnson—beef cattle breeder and leader
1987	Samuel C. Cashman—journalist and organizational specialist Floyd I. Lower—educator and potato specialist Jacob McQueen—lecturer and soybean pioneer Frank B. Sollars—organizational and financial specialist
1985	Robert O. Grieser—farmer and conservationist Cecil H. Robinson—farmer and corn seed producer Wilbur “Bill” Stuckey—educator and safety specialist Charles E. Wyckoff—farmer and electric cooperative leader
1983	Roy M. Kottman—educator, leader and innovator John Sawyer—environmentalist and industry leader Henry H. Schriver—lecturer and cooperative leader John M. Stackhouse—government leader and farmer
1981	Beatrice J. Cleveland—4-H youth leader Richard H. Kellogg—pioneer in artificial dairy breeding Robert C. Miller—agri-newscaster and youth supporter William H. Zipf—agribusiness communicator
1979	Joseph W. Fichter—teacher and lecturer Elden R. Groves—farmer and communicator C. Clayton Terrell—grain and livestock farmer Dwight Wise, Sr.—grain, dairy and beef cattle farmer
1977	Walter L. Bluck—educator and farmer Darwin R. Bryan—youth leader John M. Grierson—farmer and farm credit leader Warren G. Weiler—educator and administrator
1975	Wayne Brown—marketer and retailer A.B. Evans—purebred livestock breeder and farmer Walter R. Krill—educator and administrator Thomas S. Sutton—educator and researcher
1973	Wilbur H. Bruner—educator and animal scientist Max M. Scarff—farmer and seed producer Lewis F. Warbington—cooperative leader and humanitarian Carlos Grant Williams—educator and administrator
1971	Bryce C. Browning—conservationist and educator Benjamin Basil Brumley—farmer and cooperative leader George L. Cooley—cooperative leader and grape grower Wheeler J. Welday—fruit grower and industry leader
1969	Harold Anderson—founder of grain business Uri T. Cox—farmer and plant propagator Leon M. Evans—farmer and banker Lawrence A. Kauffman—teacher and sheep specialist Forrest G. Ketner—cooperative leader and marketing specialist Edward H. Knight—farmer and mechanical inventor Murray D. Lincoln—cooperative founder and agriculture leader Glen G. McIlroy—farmer and farm manager Joseph Oppenheim—teacher and inventor Virgil Overholt—teacher and drainage specialist Charles Plumb—educator and administrator Martin L. Ruetenik—vegetable specialist and innovator Arthur L. Smith—vegetable grower and industry leader Howard J. Ziegler—farmer and livestock breeder
1967	Carl R. Arnold—economist and finance expert David W. Galehouse—seed producer, conservationist & educator Harry C. Ramsower—agriculture educator

2008	R. Craig Fendrick—Farm Science Review leader James R. Helt—4-H youth leader Donald H. Schriver—dairy industry cooperative leader William Preston Stalter—green industry leader
2006	William L. Ingalls—veterinarian and educator Tom McNutt—agricultural communicator and educator Michael L. Wagner—organizational leader Paul L. Wright—attorney and educator
2004	Shirley Boyd—agricultural youth and women advocate Wib. H. Justi—youth and organizational leader John Stevenson—farmer and agricultural conservationist Esther McDanel Welch—dairy farmer and journalist
2002	Herman Brubaker—dairy producer and cooperative leader William Henry Conklin—dairy marketer Fred H. Deering—government leader Richard Hummel—educator
2000	James F. Cavanaugh—dairy industry leader Charles Ingraham—agricultural economist Robert E. Jacobson—dairy marketing specialist and educator Robert D. Scherer—ag advocate and cooperative leader
1998	Richard H. L. Chichester III—animal geneticist Edward Oxley Elliott—livestock marketer and restaurateur George R. Johnson—educator and animal scientist Douglas J. Michael—potato grower
1996	Carl S. Akey—livestock feed industry entrepreneur Richard Dawson—pork industry leader Freeman S. Howlett—educator and horticulturist J. Gordon Riehl—cooperative leader
1994	Bob Evans—“Sausage King” and environmentalist Robert Gottesman—wine industry leader William J. Richards—farmer and conservationist Dean W. Simeral—lobbyist for rural Ohio
1992	Eugene V. Endres—floriculturist and leader George Gist, Jr.—agronomist and leader Berlin W. Kagy—veterinarian & A.I. innovator William E. Krauss—researcher, leader and administrator
1990	George G. Greenleaf—agriculture leader and consultant Reuben R. Jones—dairy farmer and conservationist Edward Huber—inventor and industrialist Homer Price—educator, leader and horticulturist
1988	Earl F. Kantner—educator and youth leader John H. Klippart—author, narrator and organization leader James M. Lewis—farmer and dairy breeder Eugene C. Wittmeyer—educator, researcher and horticulturist
1986	Wallace Barr—educator and economist Dale T. Friday—educator and exhibition leader D.C. Kiplinger—educator, floricultural & organization specialist Lawrence E. Kunkle—educator and meat specialist
1984	Robert P. Hester—farmer and cooperative leader Ralph A. Howard—vocational educator Suzanne Macino—government agricultural assistant Harold L. Porter—government leader and plant specialist
1982	Ralph E. Bender—educator and administrator Harry A. Caton—farm organization leader Willard W. Ellenwood—orchardist and livestock breeder Everett G. Royer—farm manager and soybean leader
1980	Leonard M. Bettinger—pioneer in nursery industry Martin Luther Howell—dairy industry leader Thomas C. Kennard—innovative environmentalist Kenneth N. Probasco—agribusiness leader
1978	Max Drake—dairy industry leader Charles S. Latchaw—farm organization leader Forest Don Loudenslager—farmer and hog producer Lottie M. Randolph—agricultural leader and homemaker
1976	A.Z. Baker—marketer and organization leader Joel S. Coffey—educator and livestock industry leader John H. Dunlap—farmer and conservationist John D. Siebenthaler—nursery and landscape industry leader
1974	Lewis Charles Chadwick—educator and horticulturist John M. Davis—dairy farmer and industry leader Earl W. McMunn—agriculture editor and writer Douglas Stanfield—educator and farm organization leader
1972	Charles A. Dambach—educator and conservationist LeRoy Albert Demorest—inventor and beef cattle breeder F. Edward Seitz—vegetable grower and industry leader Charles Julius Williard—educator and agronomy industry leader
1970	Cosmas D. Blubaugh—soil and water conservationist Edmund Secrest—educator and forester John A. Slipher—educator and soil conservationist Samuel S. Studebaker—farmer and farm credit leader
1968	L.P. Bailey—breeder of Jersey cattle Oscar E. Bradfute—farmer and cooperative leader John T. Brown—farmer and lawmaker Howard M. Call—farmer and community leader C.M. Ferguson—educator and administrator A.B. Graham—founder of the 4-H club Perry L. Green—lawmaker and cooperative leader Henry P. Miller—writer and master farmer Amos I. Root—evangelist of modern beekeeping A.P. Sandles—booster of Ohio fairs Charles E. Thorne—writer and soil scientist Norton S. Townshend—educator and legislator Joseph E. Wing—writer and alfalfa pioneer
1966	Leo L. Rummell—educator and farm writer Glen H. Stringfield—plant breeder Louis J. Taber—farm organization leader