WVFB Welcomes O’Dell as Director of Government Affairs
Dwayne O’Dell has
joined the staff of West
Virginia Farm Bureau as
Director of Government
Affairs. O’Dell hails
from Roane County,
West Virginia, where he
attended Spencer High
School. He earned both
bachelor’s (1978) and
master’s (1982) degrees
in Agriculture Education
from WVU. During
his tenure as a Vo-Ag
teacher at Buckhannon-Upshur High School from ‘78 to
‘83, O’Dell’s students won two state livestock judging
contests and also competed nationally.
In August 1983, O’Dell became State Agronomist for
the West Virginia Department of Agriculture and was later
named Livestock Section Chief, supervising the livestock
grading program in West Virginia. In 1986, along with
WVU staff, he helped develop the Board Tel-O-Auction
Sales which now market over $18 million of cattle
annually through the West Virginia auction markets.
In 2000, O’Dell was named by the USDA Agriculture
Marketing Service to serve on the committee that
reviewed USDA feeder cattle grade standards.
During the last 15 years, O’Dell served as Assistant
Director of the WVDA Marketing & Development
Division, where he supervised approximately 20 staff
members as well as the 10,000 acres of WVDA state
farms. He also served on the animal disease response
team and coordinated all bonding requirements for
livestock dealers and auction markets in West Virginia.
Dwayne and wife Cynthia have three daughters and
a granddaughter. They live on a 700-acre registered
Angus cattle farm which he operates with his brother near
Amma, West Virginia. They are members of Cornerstone
Baptist Church where Dwayne teaches the weekly adult
Bible study class.
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