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 for the improved well-being of Alabama residents.
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 | Associate Professor and Extension Economist | Production and policy |
| Team Members | ||
| Associate Extension Professor | Poultry | |
| Doug Fulghum | County Extension Coordinator | |
| Taryn Garlock | Extension Specialist | Fisheries |
| Regional Extension Agent | Southwest and West Central SET | |
| Allie Logan | Assistant Director for Field Operations | |
| Harry E. Murphy Associate Professor and Extension Specialist | Forestry | |
| Calen Monroe | Regional Extension Agent | Southeast SET |
| Rilea Robinson | Regional Extension Agent | East Central SET |
| Extension Professor | Livestock and row crops | |
| Kelli Russell | Assistant Extension Professor | Rural Sociology |
| Assistant Professor and Extension Economist | Agricultural marketing |