Taylors Receive TALL South Plains Ag Leadership Award

By Jim Steadman|November 13, 2014

Dan and Linda Taylor – longtime supporters of Texas Tech’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources – received the Texas Agricultural Lifetime Leadership (TALL) Alumni Association South Plains Agriculture Leadership Award.

The honor was presented to the couple during a special program October 14 at the Bayer Museum of Agriculture in Lubbock – a facility that Dan serves as president of the Board of Directors and considers a true labor of love.

Dan, a former agriculture teacher and cotton ginner from Ropesville, is a graduate of Texas Tech’s agricultural education program and has served on CASNR’s advisory board. Taylor farms in Lubbock and Terry counties, in addition to owning several other agricultural properties in Hockley, Lynn, Castro, Lamb, Hill and Denton counties.

Linda is owner and operator of SP Taylor Insurance Agency, a Ropesville-based crop insurance agency. She was office manager, co-owner and operator of Buster’s Gin, Ltd. between 1976 and 2009. She is a member of the Plains Cotton Growers Finance Committee, the Bayer Museum of Agriculture, and the Texas Farm Bureau, among others.

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