Manuel Martinez is a Field Representative with the Texas Department of Agriculture and works within the Trade and Business Development Division of the agency. He represents 23 counties throughout the East Texas region, conducting outreach programs to support regional agriculture and rural economic development. He has worked for 22 years with TDA in various roles such as Marketing, Agriculture Consumer Protection, Economic Development, and Pesticide Inspection. Manuel is a 3rd generation Texan from Shiner, Texas and is a graduate of Texas A&M University. He and his wife reside in Montgomery County with their two boys and enjoy traveling and spending time with family.
Professor, and Director, Dianne and M. Edward ’74 Rister Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program, Research and Teaching, Tenure Track. B.Sc. (’74) and M.Sc. (’76) from Texas A&M University and Ph.D. (’81) from Michigan State University. Native originally of Round Rock in Williamson County, Texas, but grew up in the Placedo-Bloomington area of Victoria County, Texas. Began his faculty career at Texas A&M University in 1981. Teaching responsibilities in recent years include a two-course capstone sequence in economic analysis and financial analysis of agribusiness entrepreneurship-oriented businesses; a junior-level agribusiness entrepreneurship budgeting course; two introductory seminar-type courses in agribusiness entrepreneurship; and one-half of a senior-level agribusiness finance course. In addition, oversight occurs for a minor in agribusiness entrepreneurship accessible to all university students. Research responsibilities include applied research designed to identify and assess economic and financial consequences of decision situations extending from firm-level farm and/or ranch situations to agribusiness situations, with an emphasis on rural and metropolitan start-up businesses.
Capital Farm Credit is the largest agricultural lending cooperative in Texas. We have served farmers, ranchers, and rural communities for more than 100 years. Our mission to provide reliable credit and financial services that enable our members to achieve success in agriculture and rural communities drives us to support rural Texas and agriculture every day.
Capital Farm Credit has 67 locations and is chartered in 192 counties across Texas. We offer lending services for agriculture and land loans, operating loans, home loans, and equipment loans, as well as crop insurance to our borrowers. With more than 600 employees, we are proud to serve our nearly 30,000 shareholders across Texas.
