The Texas County Agricultural Agents Association has presented Hill County Farm Bureau President Rodney Schronk one of seven Man of the Year in Texas Agriculture awards.
“An equally eloquent speaker at locations ranging from turnrows to county commissioners courts, he is a great supporter of AgriLife Extension,” his nomination states. “He has cooperated in a number of row crop demonstrations, including numerous potassium fertility studies, grain sorghum variety trials, Hessian fly, carryover nitrogen, oilseed sunflower variety and others.”
Schronk, a graduate of Texas A&M University and the Texas Farm Bureau’s AgLead program, currently serves as chairman of the Hill/McLennan Integrated Pest Management Steering Committee and has been a member for over 20 years.
He was one of the first in Hill County to successfully raise oilseed sunflowers and utilize strip till/minimum tillage farming practices.