Ohio Farm Bureau Welcomes Organization Director
The Ohio Farm Bureau serving Belmont, Guernsey, Monroe and Noble counties, welcomed a new organization director this past year.
Miranda Miser joined the Ohio Farm Bureau in December 2024, replacing Betsy Anderson who served as the organization director for 40 years before she retired at the end of the year.
Miser trained with Anderson in the weeks leading up to her first official day to understand the role.
Miser served as the president of Guernsey County Farm Bureau for four years prior to her new role. She noted she had some knowledge of what the organization director entails but still had a lot to learn.
Miser, originally from Guernsey County, graduated from The Ohio State University in 2017 with a degree in agricultural communication and agribusiness and applied economics.
Miser’s family owns a feed store with three locations. She worked for the store from the time she graduated college until her new role in December. Miser’s family also owns a cow calf operation and raises chickens, too. She added she, her parents and her husband are all involved in agriculture, as farmers themselves.
Miser joined the team because she has been involved in farm bureau for awhile and got to see what it was all about, she said. She added it combines her multiple levels of public policy, helping farmers and promoting the agricultural industry.
Since becoming organization director, Miser described the experience as great, citing every day as different.
“That’s the most interesting part about my job,” she said. “No days are the same, and learning as you go, because every county is different.”
Although she represents four counties in Southeast Ohio, all of the counties are different in the makeup of their agriculture, such as the farmers, what they produce, the struggles they face, how they operate and what they’re focused on, she added.
As the organization director, Miser promotes the Ohio Farm Bureau and keeps the counties on track, making sure they’re aligning their pillars with what needs done, such as helping them plan events to promote issues that are local in the area.
Miser helps direct the boards of the counties and provides assistance. She also has meetings periodically to keep the counties informed with issues that are happening in Ohio and nationally that affects the bureau’s members. She described herself as a “connector” between the Ohio Farm Bureau and the counties.
Miser believes the most important part is to make sure the Ohio Farm Bureau is listening to its farmers, hearing what their problems are and working to find solutions for them, such as through programming and connecting them with valuable resources.
Miser works out of the Barnesville office, located at 100 Colonel Dr. near the Tlaquepaque Mexican Restaurant.
“It is so important to the future of our industry, as far as listening to the struggles that they’re (the farmers) facing,” she said, “and how can we rectify this for the next generation so we can make sure that farming is a part of our culture for years to come.”
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