PAF Training Center

Tim Roberts is a University of Tennessee Extension Agent and Agricenter International Director of Education. Tim received his Bachelor of Science degree from Tennessee Technology University in Cookeville and his Masters of Science from the University of Missouri - Columbia. He has worked in Agriculture all his life. In 1994, he joined the University of Tennessee Agricultural Extension Service as an Extension agent. In 2002, Tim joined the staff of the University of Missouri Outreach and Extension as a Natural Resources Engineering Specialist and in 2003 moved back to Tennessee, with University of Tennessee Extension in Shelby County and Agricenter International. He has been working with Progressive Agriculture Safety Days for 19 years.

Stephanie Tobin is the 4-H Foundation Regional Extension Agent of Clay County in Alabama. As a child, she attended several Progressive Agriculture Safety Days from 1998 to 2004. As a child living on a family farm, the Safety Days were educational and inspirational. After becoming a 4-H agent through Auburn University in 2017, she made a goal to bring back the Progressive Agriculture Safety Days in her community to serve the youth in the rural area. In addition, Stephanie’s husband, Deputy Koty Tobin, has served as a co-coordinator in years past to assist with community safety education for the youth. Stephanie is a proud mother of a 6-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter. She spends her free time with her family – hiking, camping, kayaking, and enjoying the great outdoors.

Wendy Becker is the Montana State University Extension Agent in Roosevelt County, working with agriculture and youth development. She started with extension in North Dakota where she first learned about the Progressive Agriculture Safety Day (PASD) program and the North Dakota Farm Bureau. Upon moving to Montana to work for Extension, as well as farming and ranching, she also brought the PASD program with her to share the incredible education experience and program that she feels so strongly about to the area youth. Wendy has done several programs in several school and communities, sometimes even a few a year. Wendy and her husband, run cattle, small grains, forages, and have three young boys involved in 4-H. In her “spare time,” she enjoys kayaking.