Texas LAND•Spring 2017

TEXAS LAND / Contributors
AUSTIN E. BROWN II and his son, Austin E. Brown
Ill, own and operate Brown Ranches, a family cowcalf
operation in Bee County, where they reside.
In addition, Brown is owner of Brown Ranch Group
LLC, a complete ranch management company
specializing in day-to-day operations of ranches
in South Texas for non-resident ranch owners. He
also owns patents on several agriculture-related
inventions. He was named a TSCRA director
in March 1990. Brown received a Bachelor of
Science in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M
University in 1966. He has served on the clientele
advisory committee of the Center for Grazinglands
and Ranch Management at Texas A&M and has
lectured in the ag economics department. He
was also on the clientele advisory committee of
the Genome Research Project there. In addition
to his ranching and management businesses, he
is involved in the appraisal and partition of large
ranch estates in Texas and is a pilot. Brown and his
wife, Nana, have three children.
FARM CREDIT BANK OF TEXAS, headquartered
in Austin, Texas, is a cooperatively owned
wholesale bank that is part of the nationwide Farm
Credit System. Their mission is to enhance the
quality of life in rural America by using cooperative
principles to provide competitive credit and
superior service to our customers. Find out more
at FarmCreditBank.com.
DR. CHARLES GILLILAND currently holds an
appointment as a Research Economist with the
Real Estate Center in the Mays School and an
appointment as Adjunct Associate Professor of
Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University.
In addition, Dr. Gilliland is Helen and O.N. Mitchell
Fellow of Real Estate and a Clinical Professor of
Finance teaching real estate investment analysis
for the Master of Real Estate program in the Mays
School at Texas A&M University.
GREG SIMONS received a B.S. degree in Wildlife
and Fisheries Sciences in 1987 from Texas A&M
University and soon after formed Wildlife Systems,
Inc., a company that currently manages hunting
operations on over 800,000 acres of private land
in Texas and New Mexico. He is also co-owner
of Wildlife Consultants, LLC, providing technical
assistance to landowners and other entities on
habitat management and other wildlife-related
issues. Greg served as President of Texas Wildlife
Association through July 2015.
TEXAS AND SOUTHWESTERN
CATTLE RAISERS
ASSOCIATION (TSCRA) offers
a broad range of services,
including law enforcement,
government and public affairs,
insurance services, industry news and information
on best practices, educational programs, and
discounts for ranching supplies and related
services to members and the industry. TSCRA.org
TEXAS STATE
HISTORICAL
ASSOCIATION
was organized in
Austin on March
2, 1897 and is the oldest learned society in the
state. Its mission is to “foster the appreciation,
understanding, and teaching of the rich and
unique history of Texas and, by example and
through programs and activities, encourage and
promote research, preservation, and publication
of historical material affecting the state of Texas.”
The association’s publications include the
Southwestern Historical Quarterly, more than
150 scholarly books, the Texas Almanac, and the
well-known Handbook of Texas Online. The online
Handbook, the nation’s preeminent state history
encyclopedia, attracts 400,000 visitors per month
from more than 200 countries and territories
around the world. Through its varied education
programs, the Association directly serves more
than 50,000 elementary through college-aged
students each year, while indirectly reaching an
additional 86,000 through its teacher training
opportunities. TSHAOnline.org
TEXAS WILDLIFE
ASSOCIATION (TWA)
focuses its mission on private
landowners and their ethical
relationship to the land, and
TWA concentrates on issues
relating to private property, hunting and hunter
rights, and conservation of our natural resources.
Texas-Wildlife.org
JENNI WINEGARNER is the business manager
and marketing director for Amarillo-based Legacy
Land Auctions. Legacy Land Auctions specializes
in providing full-service marketing of premier farm
and ranch real estate across Texas and beyond.
Jenni has previously worked for a national beef
industry trade association in Washington, D.C. and
managed the political operations for a Member of
the U.S. House of Representatives. Raised in the
registered Angus cattle business, Jenni is a thirdgeneration
producer residing with her husband
and two young children near Canyon, Texas.
LORIE A. WOODWARD has worked as a writer
and public relations practitioner exploring the
intersection of agriculture, natural resources and
public policy for almost 30 years. Her career,
which has included stints in the public and private
sector, has taken her across the country and
around the world, where she has been enthralled
by the people of the land and their stories. She is
the president of Woodward Communications and
co-owner of The Round Top Register, a regional
magazine focused on life in the rolling bluebonnet
hills of central Texas where country meets city.
Woodward was reared on a ranch near Lexington,
Texas, but now makes her home in San Angelo
with her two children, Kate and Will.
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