Former AgriLife Extension agent returns to Texas in Young County
Writer: Kay Ledbetter, 806-677-5608, [email protected]
Contact: Justin Rogers, 940-549-0737, [email protected]
GRAHAM – Justin Rogers of Pocasset, Oklahoma, is returning to the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service as the newly hired agriculture and natural resources agent for Young County.
Rogers began March 21.
“We are very pleased to have Justin join us and bring with him a wealth of knowledge,” said Miles Dabovich, AgriLife Extension district administrator in Vernon. “We know his experience will be a great benefit to our clientele in Young County.”
Rogers earned an associate’s degree from Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College in Miami, Oklahoma, and a bachelor’s degree from Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma.
He was most recently the livestock judging coach at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, for three and a half years and spent the two years prior as an agriculture teacher for Cyril High School in Cyril, Oklahoma.
Rogers also spent four years as a county agriculture agent with Oklahoma Cooperative Extension in Cleveland County, and four years in Texas in Denton and Grayson counties as an AgriLife Extension agent.
He said he is returning to Texas because he and his wife, who is from Sonora, wanted to return to the state “for the opportunities AgriLife Extension offers.”
“I wanted to get back to working with 4-H youth and agricultural producers in the grassroots programming of Extension, and this was a good opportunity.”
Rogers said 4-H agriculture and livestock projects will be a big emphasis as he moves forward in Young County, as well as working with the adult agriculture programs in the beef and forage areas of producer interests.
