Cristen Brooks accepts agriculture and natural resources post
Writer: Steve Byrns, 325-653-4576, s-byrns@tamu.edu
Contact: Michael Clawson, 806-746-6101, m-clawson@tamu.edu
FLOYDADA – The Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service has named Cristen Brooks the new agriculture and natural resources agent for Floyd County.
The announcement was made by Floyd County Judge Penny Golightly and Michael Clawson, AgriLife Extension administrator at Lubbock.
Clawson said Brooks will complete AgriLife Extension’s First Step orientation training in Crosby and Hale counties,which began Aug. 18 and will continue until Sept. 19, before assuming her permanent Floyd County duties on Sept. 20.
Brooks will be responsible for all of AgriLife Extension’s agriculture and natural resources endeavors in the county, Clawson said.
“We are excited to have Cristen join us here in the 20-county South Plains District,” Clawson said. “She has a wide-ranging wealth of agricultural marketing and service-related skills that should serve her well in this key agricultural county.”
Brooks, who is from Fort Collins, Colorado, graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in agricultural communications from Texas Tech University.
Prior to assuming her AgriLife Extension duties, Brooks was an agriculture sales and grain marketing specialist with Cargill Ag Horizons at Hart. Prior assignments with the company included sales account manager and pork buyer with Cargill Food Distribution, St. Louis, Missouri, and beef sales trainee with Cargill Meat Solutions, Wichita, Kansas.
She has also been employed as a sales representative for Labatt Food Service of Lubbock and as an agriculture sales intern with Monsanto, also at Lubbock.
She is currently a member of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association and American Border Collie Association, and a past member of the Colorado State University Equestrian Team, American Paint Horse and American Quarter Horse associations. As a youth, she was also a 4-H member.
Brooks currently holds National Commodity Futures licenses and a Texas property and casualty insurance license.
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