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Elmore Named Alabama BCIA Outstanding
County Agent
 Auburn,
April 20, 2004
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Josh Elmore received one of the Alabama Beef Cattle Improvement
Association’s highest honors at its 40th Annual Meeting and
Awards Banquet March 27 in
Birmingham.
He was named Outstanding County Agent for the year 2003.
(Josh Elmore, left, of the Alabama Cooperative Extension System
receives Alabama BCIA's Outstanding County Agent Award from Scott
Skelton of Chunchula.)
Elmore, who now
lives in Clanton, served as the Alabama Cooperative Extension System
county agent for
Mobile and Baldwin
counties from September 1999 to May 2003.
“I was very
surprised and pleased to be recognized for my work in south
Alabama,”
Elmore said.
As county agent,
Elmore was the local contact for the 31 members of the Alabama Beef
Cattle Improvement Association located in those counties. Elmore added
eight new members to BCIA in 2002 and five new members in 2003.
“I really enjoyed
being able to work with producers and all the BCIA programs from Red
Wing records to heifer sales,” Elmore said. “Seeing producers improve
their herds is a real rewarding experience.”
After serving as
county agent, Elmore was transferred to serve as the coordinator of
Extension’s Alabama Beef Connection program. In this position, he
teaches
Alabama beef producers learn about the benefits of electronically
identifying individual animals through ear tags that allow them to
follow their cattle through the marketing chain.
Elmore also
assists with the Alabama BCIA Southwest Alabama Heifer Sale and
promotes and participates in the Alabama Pasture to Rail program.
“I couldn't have
achieved this without the support of the Mobile County Cattlemen's
Association, the BCIA producers in southwest
Alabama, my wife
Michelle and the support at Auburn,” Elmore said.
Michelle Elmore is
the coordinator for Alabama BCIA, which works closely with ABC.
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