This Conservation Showcase is your portal to the stories of Ohio's farmers and landowners working together with NRCS and our partners to protect the nation's soil, water, animals, plants and air. From the shores of Lake Erie to the banks of the Ohio River conservation successes abound. We hope that through these stories, you’ll understand how NRCS is helping people help the land every day.
 

Meet Ohio's Featured Customers

The Stollers

The Stoller Family of Sterling, Ohio, was selected as one of eight featured families in the new NRCS national campaign, "Conservation...Our Purpose.  Our Passion."  The Stoller's own and operation an organic dairy and use rotational grazing to feed the cows. 

<Featured Customer Scott Stoller

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Ohio Organic Dairy Farm (1:34 minutes)
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Other Featured Customers in Ohio

	Mike Altstaetter of Logan County, Ohio owns and operates a beef cattle operation utilizing rotational grazing.   <Featured Customer Mike Altstaetter
	Will and Tom Koenig of Madison County, Ohio farm 5,000 acres of row crops conserving wetland and utilizing filter strips and native grass riparian buffers. <Featured Customers Will and Tom Koenig
	Carol and Alice O'Brien of Logan County, Ohio planted over 2000 hardwood trees, reforesting an abandoned gravel pit on their rural property. <Featured Customers Carol and Alice O'Brien
	Birds and deer abound on Arden and Kay Weller's 320 acre Putnam County farm.  The Wellers restored wetlands and planted acres and acres of native grasses and wildflowers to provide habitat for wildlife. <Featured Customers Dean Schlacter and Kay and Arden Weller

More Featured Customers

Meet Ohio's Featured Employees

	<Featured Employee... Robert Parkinson..."creator of 'The Dust Bowl and Beyond'. "
	<Featured Employee... Jon Reedstrom..."opening up the world of soils".

View the "Conservation...Our Purpose. Our Passion" video...

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Video: Conservation... Our Purpose. Our Passion (5:24 minutes)
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