Extension is committed to providing Alabama's agricultural producers with the educational tools needed for building healthy, profitable, and environmentally sustainable farming operations.  Our agricultural outreach is organized around seven central themes:  production, managing resources, managing change, public policy, agri-industry, urban agriculture, and youth in agriculture. 

Although not as abundant as years past, Tallapoosa County, Alabama, still has a variety of agriculture.  In the rolling hills of north and central Tallapoosa County, where was once fields of cotton and corn, have now been replaced with timber and pastures.  The leading agricultural industry in Tallapoosa County is beef cattle production. There are over 344 farms with approximately 11,000 cows and calves roaming and grazing 41,000 the acres of pasture.  Second to beef production is forage and hay production.  With raising all these cattle goes the responsibility of feeding them in the summer, as well as, in the winter.  In contrast to the upper part of the county, down in the southern tip of Tallapoosa County, the land flattens into large fields of cotton, beef cattle, and hay production. 
 

Numerous homeowners and citizens in Tallapoosa County enjoy gardening as a hobby or simply as a way of life.  In the spring, well-landscaped homes and businesses bloom to life with forsythia, daffodils, azaleas, camellias, Bradford pears, and dogwoods.  Much of the summers are spent growing fresh vegetables, picking fruits and berries, and tending to the lawn.   Although there are not many large agricultural operations, horticulture, as it relates to plant nurseries and landscape management, is becoming a more important and growing aspect of agriculture in Tallapoosa County.

Other new agriculture ventures in Tallaposa County include catfish farming and crawfish production. 

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