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Your Cooperative and the U.S. Government Credit Ratings Downgrade
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AgTexas Director Danny Klinefelter honored.
The Texas A&M System has honored Danny Klinefelter, naming him as a Regent Fellow. The Texas A&M system Board established the Regents Fellow Service Award program in 1998 to recognize employees who have made exemplary contributions to their university and to the people of Texas.
Klinefelter has served the Texas A&M System since 1979, with a joint appointment with AgriLife Extension and the Texas A&M College of Agriculture and Life Sciences as an agricultural finance and management development specialist in College Station.
He has developed a national and international reputation as an AgriLife Extension educator and is best known for The Executive Program for Agricultural Producers, an elite educational program for agricultural producers instituted in 1991.
In 21 years, TEPAP has drawn participants from 43 states, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, six Canadian provinces, Chile, Mexico, and Paraguay. The 1,460 participants to date represent family farms and ranches that generate annual sales equal to six percent of the total U.S. agricultural output. The participant’s leadership roles extend TEPAP’s impact to virtually every commodity and geographic sector of the country.
He has been widely acknowledged by clientele including an honor in 2009 by Top Producer, Farm Journal Media’s business magazine, which called him one of the 25 people in the world who will have the greatest influence on the future of American agriculture.
Klinefelter earned his bachelor’s degree from Southern Illinois University in 1969, and his master’s in 1971 and doctorate in 1979, both from the University of Illinois. He has served as an AgTexas director since 2001. We congratulate Danny for this honor, and appreciate his guidance and leadership contribution to AgTexas. |
AgTexas FCS has just completed a new office facility in Levelland located at 301 East Highway 114. Staff members Doug Hoelscher and Shelley Samsel are very excited to be able to provide our members a convenient, state of the art office. An open house is planned with details to be announced.
