Photo by Lindsay Kennedy - TALL XIII Our day began in Hereford, Texas at the White Energy Ethanol Plant.  This plant produces 100 million gallons.  There is not enough corn in the area to supply the plant so over 25 rail cars a day are brought in from the Mid-West.  That is one [...]

Photo by Lindsay Kennedy - TALL XIII First stop was the Lubbock Cotton Growers Co-op Gin.   This co-op gin was established in 1939 and destroyed in a fire.  In 2009 they rebuilt a state-of-the-art high capacity gin that gins an average of 70,000 bales per year.  We watched the trucks come in and [...]

We were welcomed by Tanya Foerster – a TALL XII alumnus.  You could see and hear her continued enthusiasm for the TALL program.  She served on the planning committee for the Lubbock session and what an amazing session it was!! Jaroy Moore followed with a comment that truly set the tone – “we are family”.  [...]

Day 3 – Thursday, July 12, 2012 Mr. Bob Gantt – ChallengeWorks Absolutely incredible!!!  They claim to be an “action” learning experience – and that they are!!!  The Challenge Course is set in a wooded area primed for physical, mental and emotional games.  We learned to work as a team to solve problems – to [...]

  Dr. Deb Dunsford – AG Media Training......Ag Leadership, Education, and Communication Incredible morning!!  We were divided into groups – then we picked an envelope from the desk – and had to face a mock press corp to announce and defend our topic.   My group had to discuss the recent Farm Bill.  The “press” was [...]