Expertise:
Major
supervises 24 county extension agents-agriculture and 9 extension
agents-integrated pest management in a 20-county area around
Lubbock, Texas, as
district extension director-agriculture on the south plains.
In addition to recruiting, hiring and supervising these 33 Extension
agents, he also coordinates agriculture and natural resources
educational programming efforts on a district-wide basis and
works with Texas Agricultural Experiment Station research scientists
and Texas Agricultural Extension Service specialists to provide
technical support to extension agents on the Texas south plains.
Major serves as coordinator for all AgriPartners demonstration
and applied research work relating to Precision Agriculture
on the Texas. AgriPartners is a corporate-university program
for applied research and survey data collection on the South
Plains. AgriPartners demonstration technicians support extension
agents during the growing season and make possible a region-wide
system of product demonstration and research validation utilizing
cooperating farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses across the
south plains. Prior to assuming his current position in 1997,
Major served as a county extension agent-agriculture for 20
years in the south plains extension district.
Professional
and Academic Training:
M.Ed., Agricultural Education, Texas Tech University
B.S., Animal Science, Texas A&M University