Micah Mensing of Millersburg, Ohio, is the winner of Ohio Farm Bureau’s Young Agricultural Professionals 2020 Discussion Meet competition. He won the contest’s final round Jan. 31 during the YAP Winter Leadership Experience in Columbus.

The discussion meet tests participants’ subject knowledge, problem-solving abilities, and personal and small group communications skills. It is designed for young agricultural professionals to work together to find solutions around issues facing agriculture today.

Mensing is a Wayne County Farm Bureau member. He is an Ohio State University graduate, where he studied production agriculture at OSU’s Agricultural Technical Institute in Wooster, and agriscience education at the Columbus campus. He was named an Ohio State Department of Agricultural Communication, Education and Leadership distinguished senior in 2019.

Mensing is a growing forward specialist with  Farm Credit Mid-America and is an active member of Ohio Farm Bureau’s YAP program.

He receives a $1,000 cash award from Nationwide, an expense-paid trip to the Ohio Farm Bureau annual meeting in December, and an expense-paid trip to represent Ohio at the national competition during the American Farm Bureau annual convention in San Diego in January.

2 more finalists

The two other discussion meet finalists were David Glass of Chillicothe, Ohio, and Kalyn Swihart of Lima, Ohio.

The YAP program provides leadership development and professional growth opportunities for Farm Bureau members who are ages 18 to 35. The program hosts the Winter Leadership Conference and a Washington, D.C., Leadership Experience; and it conducts the Outstanding Young Farmer, Excellence in Agriculture and discussion meet contests. Learn more about the program at experienceyap.com.

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