The Cooperative Extension Program of Prairie View A&M and Texas AgriLife wants to encourage you to attend our USDA – NRCS Programs Seminar. The Seminar will be held on February 7, 2013 at 6:00 PM at the Zavala County Justice of the Peace Office, Pct. 4 in La Pryor, Texas. J.M. Villarreal, USDA – Natural Resources Conservation Service, will be discussing their conservation and cost share programs. USDA-NRCS has several programs that should be of interest to agricultural producers and they do have a “Beginning Rancher-Farmer Program” and a “Socially Disadvantaged Rancher-Farmer Program” that can assist qualifying farmers to start or expand their agricultural operations. Prairie View A&M University has placed an Extension Agent in Crystal City with the responsibility of providing technical assistance to residents in the areas of Community and Economic Development. Prairie View’s expansion into the Texas-Mexico Border Region is not new. Although, the majority of its Agents are in East Texas, Prairie View A&M currently has Extension Agents in Eagle Pass, Laredo, Edinburg, Raymondville, Rio Grande City, and El Paso working with local limited resources producers. Prairie View A&M Cooperative Extension Program’s Vision is “Meeting Needs…Changing Lives.” For more information about this or other Cooperative Extension Programs, please call Mario A. Morales or Betty Avila at 830-374-2883 or come by our office at 211 N. 1st Avenue, Crystal City, Texas during normal working hours. The Cooperative Extension Program serves people of all ages regardless of race, color, national origin, sex, religion, disability, political beliefs, and marital or family status.