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Ohio Congressman Bob Gibbs (R-OH) has been named the Agricultural Retailers Association’s (ARA) 2011 Legislator of the Year, an award presented annually to a member or members of Congress who work closely with the ARA on legislation important to the agricultural retail industry.

Matt Kleski has been named the Key Agricultural Program Specialist for the Production Adjustment, Compliance and Risk Management Section at the Ohio Farm Service Agency state office. Kleski replaces Rick Borland who retired last December.

Ron Kensinger is the new chair of the Ohio State University Department of Animal Sciences. Kensinger comes to OSU from the other OSU, Oklahoma State University, where he served as professor and head of the Department of Animal Science.

The Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center’s Plant and Animal Agrosecurity Research Facility has been renamed in honor of longtime U.S. Representative Ralph Regula, who represented Ohio’s 16th Congressional District during 18 consecutive terms starting in 1972. The PAAR facility is the first in Ohio and one of only two nationally with capacity for research on infectious diseases of both plants and large animals.