If you want to be a stomp-down good county agent in your area, it's critical to know the research and the people who can think outside the box. An agent in a cotton county has to align himself with the cotton team in Georgia and with specialists and researchers beyond the state line. If we don't go that extra step, we can become insignificant. The farmer already knows a lot of what we know. If you're beat up and in a wheelchair, you can still function as a county agent if you write a column.
Some people think information is power.
But information isn't worth a durn if you don't communicate it, and let them know you care. In his tenure as a county agent in Screven County, Zipperer wrote 1,000 weekly agent columns and aired 5,000 daily radio programs. Article by Dan Rahn , Education, Communication and Technology Unit - Statesboro.