Farm Management
The Alabama Cooperative Extension System farm and agribusiness management team helps agricultural producers address issues focused on profitability and sustainability. This is accomplished through teaching research-based economic principles and farm management techniques.
This team seeks to collaborate with and provide leadership to agricultural producers, allied industries, and local communities to increase knowledge, skills, and economic decision‐making abilities designed to improve risk management, enhance resource allocation, and boost economic growth.
The team provides assistance to farmers, farm families, land owners, agricultural businesses, and other stakeholders in Alabama and the surrounding region. Topic areas of focus include the following:
- agricultural appreciation
- awareness of agricultural stress and well-being
- empowering women in agriculture
- enterprise budgets
- insurance tools
- marketing strategies and outlooks
- policy education
- solar energy
- succession and estate planning
- and more
Farm and Agribusiness Management Team
| Name | Title | Speciality Area(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Team Coordinator | ||
| Adam Rabinowitz | Assistant Professor and Extension Economist | Production and policy |
| Team Members | ||
| Regional Extension Agent | Commercial horticulture | |
| Associate Extension Professor | Poultry | |
| Regional Extension Agent | Farm financials | |
| Doug Fulghum | County Extension Coordinator | |
| Regional Extension Agent | Livestock | |
| Allie Logan | County Extension Coordinator | |
| Harry E. Murphy Associate Professor and Extension Specialist | Forestry | |
| Calen Monroe | Regional Extension Agent | |
| Extension Professor | Livestock and row crops | |
| Kelli Russell | Assistant Extension Professor | Rural Sociology |
| Assistant Professor and Extension Economist | Agricultural marketing |