An Ohio farmer watched gullies repeatedly cut through his family's 700-acre farm and decided to change how he worked the land; decades later, the family operation has grown to 8,000 acres while becoming a conservation showcase

• The Kellogg story is also one of persistence.
• He began farming at 14 after his father left agriculture to care for his ill wife.
• By his senior year of high school, Bill was managing 700 acres, much of it through relationships with older farmers in the community.