The Staff pictured (l to r): James Currington, farm loan manager; Cliff Warren, management systems analyst; Lila Chambers, program technician; Belinda Bryant, program technician; Debra Montgomery, program technician; Charles Thomas, county executive director; Gretchen Thomas, district director.
The Tuscaloosa/Pickens Farm Service Agency office is located in Tuscaloosa, Ala., in the west central part of the state. The office serves more than 1,400 producers and 200 borrowers. Many agricultural enterprises exist in the counties including row cropping of cotton, corn, soybean, peanut, wheat, rye, oats and sunflower, along with poultry, cattle, catfish, tilapia, and timber.
This office administers a variety of programs that include the Direct and Counter-Cyclical Program, Conservation Reserve Program, Disaster, Dairy and Price Support Program. The farm loan team serves nine counties — Fayette, Lamar, Greene, Sumter, Hale, Perry, Bibb and Tuscaloosa/Pickens.
One highlight the office is proud of is Farm Loan Program Technician Debra Montgomery who recently met President Obama and received a tour of the White House and Camp David. Montgomery’s son serves as a presidential guard with the U.S. Marine Corps and earned a Presidential Guard Badge and invited Montgomery to the ceremony.
