Justin Ringler: Life, the Truth, on the Farm

Story by Tracy Leturgey, Ashland Source

As a farmer in Ashland County, Ohio, Justin Ringler values truth and an honest, hard day’s work—simple concepts that he says take on layers of complexities when it comes to government. Ringler lives and works on a dairy farm in Perrysville, Ohio, with his wife Molly and four children. It’s a place where the most important news of the day is the weather report and where independence comes at the cost of working every holiday and eschewing days off, even in the middle of a global pandemic. In his photo, he stands with his father and two of his brothers in a barn as they continue a tradition begun to honor his grandfather, a man whose brief, witty sayings have molded how Ringler lives his life and makes decisions.