MEDIA RELEASE___Join the Hardin Soil and Water Conservation District at the 2026 Annual Meeting Customer Appreciation Event at 5:00 p.m. on August 20, Hardin County Fairgrounds Shelter House, 14134 Letson Ave. Kenton, OH 43326. This event is free, and all are welcome.

Voting will take place for the election of two Board of Supervisors members. Candidates are Dave Snider, Blake Willeke and Trent Watkins. Read candidate profiles here.

A catered meal by 101 Smokehouse will include pulled pork or pulled chicken, green beans, potato salad and ice cream.

5:00 p.m. Meal and voting
5:30 p.m. Speaker Roger Wright
6:15 p.m. Conservation Partner of the Year announcement

Grain marketing consultant Roger Wright has conducted hundreds of seminars and shared his expertise on weekly farm radio programs as part of his goal to teach grain marketing concepts to farmers. He was raised on a dairy/hog farm in West Central Ohio and spent four years in the Marine Corps after achieving a Bachelor of Science degree in ag education.

He previously taught college-level farm management courses and served as a branch manager for Heinold Commodities and Securities from 1980 until March 1984, when he became a self-employed, non-commission grain market educator and consultant. His recommended use of grain marketing tools is unlike any other marketing program, less costly, more flexible and more successful.

Wright's session will explain his simplistic marketing plan using forward contracts or HTA contracts as the primary marketing tools and put options as secondary marketing tools to enhance profitability and catch a price near the top of every year's price range to achieve more profit through better marketing with less stress.