Kendra Stahl’s workplace is so new that her everlasting desk hasn’t even been delivered simply but.
“I to date just like the constructing,” she stated.
Stahl is the brand new Ohio State College Extension agent for Crawford County. Her first day was June 5, only a couple weeks after the extension workplace moved to the brand new, $1.6 million multipurpose constructing on the county fairgrounds.
“I believe it’ll be good for the honest,” Stahl stated.
‘I grew up within the northern a part of the county’
The brand new constructing’s opening and Stahl’s hiring got here unusually shut to at least one one other, particularly contemplating she was a longtime 4-H and FFA exhibitor on the honest earlier than the constructing’s building was deliberate.
“I grew up within the northern a part of the county on my dad and mom’ farm,” Stahl defined. “I went to Buckeye Central Excessive College, so technically New Washington is the place I am from.”
When she was little, the household caught with hay and crops and even did customized farming for close by farms. When she obtained older, they began elevating dairy beef feeders.
She’s been studying about rising crops and elevating animals her total life. On the honest, her animals included dairy beef feeders, broilers and goats.
When she was nonetheless a junior in highschool, she stated her soil-judging workforce “did very well,” which made her change how she considered agriculture as a profession.
“That sort of gave me the thought to enter agronomy and soil,” Stahl stated.
‘I am tremendous lucky to be right here’
The younger farmer opted to attend Wilmington Faculty, the place she earned a bachelor’s diploma in agronomy and obtained a minor in chemistry. She then selected to move west to get a grasp’s in agronomy from Kansas State.
“The school had been so good and the opposite grad college students had been actually welcoming,” Stahl stated. “As laborious it was to maneuver 13 hours away from your loved ones with no associates or contacts on the market, I am virtually unhappy to go away. It is nice to start out a brand new factor, but additionally unhappy that I am abandoning all these associates that I did make.”
She’s again dwelling, although, and that is why she utilized for the job after Jason Hartschuh, the county’s former extension agent, grew to become the college’s area specialist for dairy administration and precision livestock.
“It is my dwelling county, so I needed to apply once I noticed it,” Stahl stated. “I am super-fortunate to be right here and that they selected me to fill this place.”
‘Issues work out the best way they’re imagined to’
The Crawford County Fairgrounds have modified within the half-dozen years Stahl was away, and she or he’s impressed with what’s occurred whereas she was incomes her levels.
She’s moved to Willard, only a few minutes from her household’s farm.
“It is not very a lot to cease over and assist out once they want a hand,” Stahl stated. “Or to go say hello for supper or one thing.”
Had Hartschuh by no means moved on to a brand new position himself, Stahl thinks she by no means would have thought to use to every other positions in her dwelling county. She probably could be a number of states away by now.
“I consider issues work out the best way they’re imagined to,” she stated.
Though her everlasting desk nonetheless hasn’t arrived, she’s not ready to dive in and assist the county’s tons of of farmers.
“There’s undoubtedly a giant demand for information on this county,” Stahl stated. “It is nonetheless tremendous early for me, however I actually simply need to perceive the group and what their wants are after which atone to these and work with the encircling brokers and get to know them and and what they will do for us as properly. That is my predominant purpose.”
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