Dr. Greg Clary

Professor and Extension Economist-Management, for the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, with headquarters at the East District 5, Texas AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Overton. He received his B.S.('76), M.S.('78), and Ph.D.('82) in Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University.  He also is the Chairman of the Texas Center for Rural Entrepreneurship.  He works with business owners, community leaders and resource providers across the state on entrepreneurship, community economic development and business management and capitalization.  This includes issues such as business planning; feasibility analysis; budgeting; evaluating marketing alternatives; developing value-added business opportunities; financial management; and business performance analysis. It also includes developing and working with community college educators and communities supporting entrepreneurship and economic development.

Greg has developed entrepreneurship support network curricula for the Texas Rural Community College Network and coordinated development of Critical Thinking in Leadership curriculum. He serves on several non-profit boards and administers the Consortium of Community Colleges Serving Rural Texas and the Texas Leadership Development Program.  He also has presented several entrepreneurship programs for the Borlaug Institute Food for Peace Guatemala project.

Major programming subject matter areas: Entrepreneurship, Community Economic Development, Farm and Ranch Management; Agribusiness and Small Business Management; Business Planning and Capitalization.