OBITUARY Tommy Greiner
Florida Cooperative Extension Service Wants To Hear From You As Officials Work To
Create Long-Range Plan By Mickie Anderson
for information contact 352-273-3567 or
tnordlie@ufl.edu Source: Millie Ferrer-Chancy, 352-392-1761,
lmferrer@ufl.edu
University of Florida officials
Tommy Greiner passed away on April 4th. Tommy is survived by his wife,
Barbara; three children, Leigh Ann Greiner, Leslie Stokes (Robert), and Rick; three grandchildren; and one sister, Barbara Robinson. Tommy and Rick were in the
field. Tommy had just roped an Angus bull. Greiner was a cowboy and he
died doing what he loved best. What a way to go. Tommy and his wife Barbara
are co-owners and operaters the Townsend Livestock Market in Madison with Barbara’s brother Ab Townsend. Visitation was held at Beggs Chapel in Madison on April 7 at Beggs Funeral Home. Funeral Services were at Beggs Chapel in Madison on April 8.
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are working to develop a comprehensive plan to guide the future of Florida’s Cooperative Extension Service, but first they want to know what stakeholders need. Extension faculty at the University of Florida and Florida A&M University already do their best to bring the most-needed educational programs to the public, but a listening tour and online survey are designed to hone that effort even more, said Millie Ferrer-Chancy, interim dean for extension with UF’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. “We’ve launched this process because we need to make sure we’re focusing our energies on doing what’s most important to our clientele,” she said. Listening sessions will take place
through May in all of the state’s 67 counties, she said. Some sessions began in February. Contact your local county extension office if you would like to participate in a listening session. To find your local extension office, visit http://solutionsforyourlife.ifas.
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also invite anyone interested in the process to complete an online survey at http://
solutionsforyourlife.com. Following the sessions, county
extension faculty will create priority lists based on input received. Administrators will look for trends and common threads among those priorities as they begin formulating the long-range plan.
Those administrators also plan
to spend May and June visiting county extension faculty to talk about what was learned. Depending on what they hear, administrators could change the way extension is staffed, said Larry Arrington, a former IFAS extension dean assisting with the plan. The plan is expected to be implemented in January 2012. Arrington said previous planning
efforts have proven invaluable. Several years ago, he said, stakeholder feedback helped administrators realize that small, part-time farmers were becoming a big force in Florida and needed extension’s help. I n anot her i n s tance,
administrators learned that extension agents needed to focus on helping growers understand and comply with increased governmental regulations. This time, Arrington said,
administrators may get feedback that suggests people looking for extension help want it to come to them via portable devices, such as smartphones. He also believes that water-quality issues will be among Floridians’ top priorities. UF and FAMU extension work to
bring scientific knowledge and expertise to the public. UF has extension offices in all 67 Florida counties; FAMU extension has offices in 18 counties.
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