2026 Sustaining Sponsor Spotlight: Barrett, Easterday, Cunningham, Eselgroth LLP

The Ohio AgriBusiness Association is pleased to feature our Sustaining Sponsors in the 2026 Spotlight Series. This week, the focus is on Bronze Sponsor: Barrett, Easterday, Cunningham, Eselgroth LLP.

Legacy Farmers Cooperative

Location (Main Headquarters):7259 Sawmill Road, Dublin, Ohio 43016

Year established: 2002

Number of locations: 2

Number of employees: 11

About Your Company

Our Vision

Our vision is to see our clients succeed, our associates flourish, and our law firm grow by cultivating our talents and staying true to our guiding principles.

Our Guiding Principles

We insist on integrity and pursue excellence. We want our team to be known for their honesty and the high quality of their legal work.

We seek practical, common-sense solutions. Many of us grew up on farms and our roots are deep in rural life. We share a down-to-earth approach to the work we do.

We love and respect people. Valuing others means we seek first to understand, then be understood. We foster an environment where all can contribute, innovate and excel.

We are people of faith. Our service orientation springs from a believe in God and his time-honored wisdom. It’s our desire to bring light, mercy and grace to the work we find before us.

We share a love for agriculture, rural life and farm families. Our farm-roots feed our desire to defend agriculture and serve those working to feed, fuel and clothe the world.

What products or services do you provide? The firm provides a wide range of legal services, including a special emphasis on serving the needs of agribusiness clients throughout North America. Areas of emphasis include business and estate planning, agricultural financing, business formation, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy law, commodities contracts and law (including industry trade rules), domestic and international commercial transactions, environmental law, estate administration, federal farm program issues, government regulation and compliance, land use planning, real estate, like-kind exchanges, tax law, rail transportation, litigation, mediation and arbitration (including both domestic and international arbitration and dispute resolution involving agricultural commodities).

Your Company Story

Our founding partners joined together in November 2002 to ensure that we could serve our agricultural clients with integrity and professionalism. We place a high value on making sure our attorneys and staff have the latest training and information to keep them at the forefront of agricultural legal issues.

We have retained and added lawyers and staff to ensure that we can serve our agricultural clientele. Our unique practice areas have led to providing legal services to agribusiness clients throughout North America and farm families in Ohio.

What’s next for your company? We will continue to work as a team to serve our clients with excellent, down-to-earth legal counsel.

OABA Membership

How has OABA membership benefited your company or the agribusiness industry? OABA membership helps us stay in touch with our clients and educated on the issues affecting our clients.

Just for Fun

Our attorneys all have connections with agriculture. David Barrett served as general counsel for the National Grain and Feed Association for more than a decade in Washington, D.C., not only running the arbitration system but working with national leaders on farm policy. Troy Callicoat and Eli Earich have joined David in working for companies in arbitration and drafting grain and feed contracts. Sheena can tell you about rice production and minnow farming from her youth in Arkansas. Emily is involved in 4-H and the family’s farm in Southwest Ohio. Troy, Eli, David and Carolyn grew up working with livestock and crop production. Some of our attorneys had careers in agriculture-related positions prior to studying law. Jeff was a farm and rural appraiser, Carolyn an ag journalist, and Eli a grain merchandiser.

Interested in becoming a Sustaining Sponsor? 

Click here to learn more about the program or contact Lauren Prettyman at lprettyman@oaba.net. Sustaining sponsors will automatically be promoted as such at all OABA events and will not be approached for sponsorship opportunities throughout the year. 

Note that because the OABA Educational Trust is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, sponsorships related to this trust are separate from OABA.