About Jay Yates
Jay Yates is an Extension Economist - Risk Management with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service based in Lubbock, Texas (District 2). As the risk management specialist in District 2, his activities focus on analyzing the financial performance and associated risk of alternative financing, investing and operational decisions for crop and livestock producers in the South Plains.
Yates re-joined the Texas A&M System in April 2002 after a 15-year absence. Previously he served with the Center For Farm Financial Management at the University of Minnesota, the National Grain Sorghum Producers in Abernathy, Texas, and spent 12 years farming in southwestern New Mexico. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1983 from Tarleton State University with a B.S. in agricultural economics. He received his M.S. degree in agricultural economics in 1985 from Texas A&M University.
Jay is originally from Deming, New Mexico and is married to Shelly Maupin from Ira, Texas. They have 3 children, 5 grandchildren and reside in Shallowater, Texas.