Agricultural Advancement Consortium

Board of Directors

Chair - Faylene Whitaker, Owner/Operator, Whitaker Farms
Vice Chair - Larry Wooten, President, North Carolina Farm Bureau
Secretary – Billy Ray Hall, President, Rural Center

Linda Shaw, Executive Director, Rural Advancement Foundation International-USA
Dale Bone, Owner/Operator, Dale Bone Farms
Blake Brown, Hugh C. Kiger Professor, N.C. State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
Billy Carter, Chair, N.C. Tobacco Trust Fund Commission
J. Keith Crisco, Secretary, N.C. Department of Commerce
Lawrence Davenport, Owner/Operator, Davenport Farms; Board Member, Golden LEAF
Dee Freeman, Secretary, N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources
Jimmy Gentry, President, N.C. State Grange

Randy Gore, State Director, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rural Development
Ronald Jackson, President, Clinton Trucking and Tractor Co.
O.C. Jenkins Jr., Owner/Operator, Jenkins Farms
Richard Jones, Wachovia Bank
Donald R. McDowell, Dean, N.C. A&T University College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Erica Peterson, Executive Director, N.C. Agribusiness Council
Cecil Settle, Executive Director, N.C. Foundation for Soil and Water Conservation Districts

Norris Tolson, President, North Carolina Biotechnology Center
Steve Troxler, Commissioner of Agriculture, N.C. Department of Agriculture
Johnny Wynne, Dean, N.C. State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

Contact

Billy Guillet, Director, Agricultural Advancement Consortium

N.C. Rural Economic Development Center

4021 Carya Drive

Raleigh, NC 27610

Telephone: 919-250-4314

Fax: 919-250-4325