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Barry Ward
Director, OSU Extension Income Tax School Program; Leader, Production Business Management
Phone: 
614.688-3959
Degree Information: 
B.S., Agricultural Economics, The Ohio State University
M.S., Agricultural Economics, The Ohio State University
Specialization: 
Tax policy, farm management, enterprise budgets, cash rent and farmland values
Biography: 

Leader, Production Business Management: Works collaboratively for the development and delivery of Extension Programs that provide managers of farm/agricultural businesses with tools, information, and analysis to manage their firms.  Focus includes land economics, farmland value and cash rental rates, farmland lease issues, crop economics and budgets, machinery economics, and federal & state tax issues.

Director, Income Tax Schools at the Ohio State University: Works collaboratively planning, organizing and co-teaching schools for tax professionals as well as providing tax education on critical issues for Ohio’s agricultural sector.

Undergraduate instruction: AEDE 3104, Farm Business Management.  (Taught since 2006.)

Part-time farmer as a part of Ward Farms in Urbana, Ohio.

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