CANYON – Kim Peters has been hired as the new Texas AgriLife Extension Service 4-H and youth development agent in Randall County. She will start Oct. 1.
“Kim’s experience, work ethic and people skills will help her become a very successful AgriLife Extension employee,” said Danny Nusser, AgriLife Extension district director in Amarillo.
The 4-H youth and volunteers in Randall County are fortunate to have a person of her quality to lead their program, Nusser said.
“I expect her to be a great fit with the current staff and a positive influence on the Randall County Extension program,” he said.
Peters said she’s known since she was a teenager that she loved the 4-H program so much that one day it would be a career for her.
“Randall County already has a strong 4-H program in place,” she said. “Hopefully, I can build on what is there and introduce some new programs. I also would like to do some recruitment to increase the participation numbers from south Amarillo.”
Peters, who grew up on the Yellow House Ranch near Littlefield, earned her master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Texas Tech University in Lubbock.
She most recently worked as a graduate assistant in the Texas Tech University College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources in Lubbock and at the Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center at Lubbock in the cotton breeding program. She also worked for several years at the Texas 4-H Conference Center at Lake Brownwood.
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