Rich Howell.
FORMER FARM BROADCASTER NAMED TO AGRICULTURAL PUBLIC RELATIONS HALL OF FAME…Richard “Rich” Howell was one of two inductees named at the 2014 annual meeting of the Agricultural Relations Council. Rich Howell knew that he wanted a career in communications when he entered Ohio State University, and when he graduated with a communications degree in 1957, he landed a job as an on-air news reporter with WBNS (Columbus, OH). From the news beat in Columbus, he went to WLW (Cincinnati, OH) following in the footsteps of Roy Battles, (1950 NAFB President and 1990 NAFB Hall of Fame inductee). But Rich wanted more, and in 1968, he joined the staff of the Ohio Farm Bureau to continue his daily on-air reporting, but also to branch out to include magazine writing. He covered the ag beat for Ohio farm families from his base back in the capital city of Columbus.
