5/25/2011

Groundbreaking for TVREC Facility

Shown with their shovels at the May 25 grounding for a new administration building at the Tennessee Valley Research and Extension Center in Belle Mina are, from left, Jim Bannon, director, outlying units, Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station; Bill Batchelor, AAES director and Auburn University College of Agriculture dean; Jerry Newby, president, Alabama Farmers Federation and Alfa Insurance; Paul Pinyan, executive director, Alabama Farmers Federation; Paul Mask, assistant director, Ag, Forestry and Natural Resources, Alabama Cooperative Extension Center; and Chet Norris, TVREC director. A $1-million donation from the Farmers Federation is funding construction of the much-needed facility, which will be called the Alabama Farmers Federation Administrative Building. The building will provide meeting space for field days and other agricultural and community gatherings and add much-needed office space for the research and Extension employees who work at Belle Mina and the AAES scientists who conduct research there.

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