Brandon and Julie Weber take home the 2009 Outstanding Young Farmer Award. The Webers are eighth generation farmers who grow tomatoes in their self-built high tunnel greenhouses. They also raise pumpkins and decorative gourds for festival sales, host farm tours and provide a haunted corn maze and other agri-tourism events. Julie is a program technician for Farm Service Agency and has served as a Jackson/Vinton County Farm Bureau trustee and on numerous county committees. Brandon is a county Farm Bureau board trustee and serves on the local Soil and Water Conservation District board. They receive an expense-paid trip to the American Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting in Seattle in January to represent Ohio in the national contest. They also receive a $1000 purchase certificate at Grainger Industrial Supply courtesy of Farm Credit Services of Mid America, a years free lease on a Kubota M-series tractor courtesy of Kubota and $500 from Dodge Trucks. They also receive a commemorative chime clock from Ohio Farm Bureau. Learn more about the Webers and the award at: ofbf.org