Joe Outlaw named Wheat Man of the Year

Farm Life

"Joe's been a friend of agriculture for years."

December 5, 2019

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2019 Wheat Man of the Year, Joe Outlaw, with Texas Wheat Producers Board and Association President Jody Bellah. Outlaw, professor and Extension economist and co-director of the Texas A&M Agriculture Food Policy Center, was presented the award at the Texas Wheat Symposium, Dec. 4, 2019.Shelley E. Huguley

Joe Outlaw, professor and Extension economist and co-director of the Texas A&M Agriculture Food Policy Center (AFPC), was named the 2019 Wheat Man of the Year by the Texas Wheat Producers Board and Association.

"Joe's been a friend of agricultural for years. He does a lot of hard work and a lot of work for all different commodities in agriculture," says Texas Wheat Producers President Jody Bellah.

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Watch this video to hear more from Bellah and Outlaw, who spoke with Farm Press following the award presentation at the 2019 Texas Wheat Symposium held in conjunction with the Amarillo Farm and Ranch Show, Amarillo, Texas.

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Throughout a career that expands three decades, Outlaw has also received the following professional honors and awards:

Texas A&M University Board of Regents, 2016 – Regents Service Fellow
American Agricultural Economics Association, 2016 – Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award
American Agricultural Economics Association, 2016 – Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Award – Group
Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2016 – Outstanding Extension Program Award Team
Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2016 – Lifetime Achievement Award
Texas AgriLife Extension Service Superior Service Unit Award, 2016 (Agricultural Economics Extension Farm Bill Education Team)
National Excellence in Extension Award, 2015 – The Extension Committee on Organization and Policy and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA
Southern Region Excellence in Extension Award, 2015 –The Association of Southern Region Extension Directors
Texas Commodity Symposium, 2014 – Distinguished Service Award for service to the Texas Corn Producers, Plains Cotton Growers, Texas Sorghum Producers, and Texas Wheat Producers
Texas Independent Ginners Association, 2013 – Distinguished Service Award for service to the Texas Cotton Ginning Industry
Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2011 – Outstanding Teaching of a Course Award
The Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, 2010 – Distinguished Extension/Outreach Program Group
Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2010 – Team Award
The Gold Quill Award, The Journal of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA), 2009
Superior Service Specialist Award, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, 2008
Superior Service Team Award, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, 2008
Distinguished Achievement Award for Extension, Outreach, Continuing Education, and Professional Development, Association of Former Students University Level Awards, 2008
Outstanding Extension Program Award, Western Agricultural Economics Association, 2008
Superior Service Unit Award, Texas AgriLife Extension Service, 2007
President’s Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2007
Outstanding Public Issues Education Program Award, National Public Policy Education Committee, 2003
Distinguished Extension Program Group Award, American Agricultural Economics Association, 2003
Administrator’s Award, Farm Service Agency, USDA, 2003 (Base and Yield Analyzer)
Administrator’s Award, Farm Service Agency, USDA, 2003 (FSA/USDA farm bill education seminars)
Distinguished Extension Program Award, Southern Agricultural Economics Association, 2003
Deputy Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for an Extension Team in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, 2003
Outstanding Public Issues Education Program Award, National Public Policy Education Committee, 2002
Director’s Award for Innovative Application of Information Technology in Extension Education, Texas Cooperative Extension, 2002
Epsilon Sigma Phi, National Honorary Extension Fraternity State Early Career Award, 2002
American Agricultural Economics Association Distinguished Policy Contribution Award, 1996-97
Deputy Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Graduate Student Research in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, 1993
Deputy Chancellor’s Award in Excellence for Team Research in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Texas A&M University, 1993

About the Author(s)

Shelley E. Huguley

Editor, Southwest Farm Press

Shelley Huguley has been involved in agriculture for the last 25 years. She began her career in agricultural communications at the Texas Forest Service West Texas Nursery in Lubbock, where she developed and produced the Windbreak Quarterly, a newspaper about windbreak trees and their benefit to wildlife, production agriculture and livestock operations. While with the Forest Service she also served as an information officer and team leader on fires during the 1998 fire season and later produced the Firebrands newsletter that was distributed quarterly throughout Texas to Volunteer Fire Departments. Her most personal involvement in agriculture also came in 1998, when she married the love of her life and cotton farmer Preston Huguley of Olton, Texas. As a farmwife, she knows first-hand the ups and downs of farming, the endless decisions made each season based on “if” it rains, “if” the drought continues, “if” the market holds. She is the bookkeeper for their family farming operation and cherishes moments on the farm such as taking harvest meals to the field or starting a sprinkler in the summer with the whole family lending a hand. Shelley has also freelanced for agricultural companies such as Olton CO-OP Gin, producing the newsletter Cotton Connections while also designing marketing materials to promote the gin. She has published articles in agricultural publications such as Southwest Farm Press while also volunteering her marketing and writing skills to non-profit organizations such as Refuge Services, an equine-assisted therapy group in Lubbock. She and her husband reside in Olton with their three children Breely, Brennon and HalleeKate.

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