Dustin Homan started as Indiana Farm Bureau’s leadership development coordinator in March of this year.

In this role, he oversees leadership development programming, including L.E.A.D. (short for “leadership, education, action, development”), the Young Farmers & Ag Professionals State Committee, and YF&AP awards and competitions. He will also help with the YF&AP Conference.

A native of Anna, Ohio, Homan comes to INFB from the Lebanon (Indiana) Community School Corporation where he was most recently an agricultural educator and FFA advisor. Homan comes to INFB with experience as a 4-H youth development extension educator, an agricultural educator and FFA advisor.

Homan has a bachelor’s in agriculture and a master’s in agricultural and extension education from Ohio State University. Through a program called CASE (Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education), he is a certified teacher in Principles of Agricultural Science – Plant. He has traveled to Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, Nicaragua and Honduras on international exchanges/mission trips to improve agricultural productivity. While in college, he also was a public policy intern at Ohio Farm Bureau.

Homan grew up next to his grandparents’ small beef cattle and grain farm, and he is a 10 year 4-H member and American FFA Degree recipient.

He and his wife, Emily, live in Zionsville with their four children: 6-year-old twins Jobe and Christian, 3-year-old Solomon and 4-month-old Maeve. Among their hobbies are travel, Indycar racing, college sports (rooting for both the Buckeyes and the Boilermakers) and running.