Young Farmers & Ranchers District 6

Abby Crawford, Polk County

Abby is the agriculture programming coordinator at Warner University. She works with middle and high school students to guide them in their future agriculture careers. She is passionate about continuing the family heritage and growing her family’s ranch as well as encouraging and raising up the future generation and giving students the tools they need to succeed.

Samantha Nichols, Polk County

Samantha works for Charter Next Generation where her role is to travel primarily across the southeast selling products to and supporting specialty crop farmers. Originally from South Carolina, Samantha was raised on a beef cattle and hay operation, and her family owns the last dairy farm in the state.

Samantha is a graduate and former division one athlete from Clemson University, where she earned her bachelor of science in psychology. She continued her education at Texas Tech University where she earned her master’s of science in agricultural communications.

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