John Miller

John was born in Corpus Christi, Texas and has lived and worked along the coast for most of his life and enjoyed lots of hunting and fishing, sandlot baseball, football, riding motorbikes, and going to the beach. After graduating from La Porte High School, he worked part-time in a number of agricultural and oilfield related occupations while working towards an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Economics from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. John later pursued graduate degrees in Agricultural Economics and after completing a PhD in Agricultural Economics in 1997 he worked as an Extension Economist for Louisiana State University. Developing and implementing producer-oriented educational programs demonstrated to him the importance of farmers and ranchers being proactive at reducing the risk associated with marketing and management decisions. In 1999, John started Southwest Agribusiness Consulting, Inc. that provides price risk management services to producers and users of agricultural commodities throughout the Southern Plains. He works with individual customers and provides leadership in the development and implementation of price risk management plans for fellow staff. John and his family live in College Station.

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Jill Stolz

Jill was born and raised in Burleson County. Growing up in the farming and ranching industry, Jill's family grows cotton, corn, hay and registered F-1 Braford heifers. Through her school years, Jill participated in 4-H and FFA; showing market steers and commercial heifers raised by her family. After graduating from Caldwell High School, Jill began her college career at Blinn Junior College. Ultimately, she transferred to Sam Houston State University and began working as a student in the Agriculture department. Jill graduated from Sam Houston State University in 2010 with a Bachelor's of Science degree in Animal Science, minoring in Agricultural Business.

Upon graduating, Jill knew it was important to her to work and live close to her family and their farm. She worked 4 years at a local bank, concentrating in fraud prevention associated with AML and debit card activity. She married in 2013, and now lives in Burton, TX, where Jill and her husband, Matt, raise cattle on their ranch. Although banking was great, Jill knew that working in the Agriculture industry is really where she desired to expand her career.

Jill joined Southwest Agribusiness Consulting, Inc. at the main office location in September 2014. As Office Administrator for our statewide program, she assists staff in all aspects of business operations and customer services.

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Andrew Dusek

Andrew was born and raised in Bryan, and also has strong family ties to the Caldwell area just down the road. He played little league baseball and soccer as a young boy, and learned how to play the saxophone in middle school. As he grew older being outdoors became his favorite pastime and when he wasn't helping his dad or grandfather out at the farm in Caldwell; hunting, fishing, and riding ATVs became some of his favorite things to do with his spare time. He graduated from Bryan High School in the spring of 2009.

He decided to attend Texas A&M because of the many great agriculture based degrees they offered and the ability to still be close to his family. During college he worked for several different agriculture based companies in the area. He worked with everything from GMO commodities for large agrochemical companies to livestock feed products at the local Producers Cooperative. His last job as a student worker was for Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Research branch where his job responsibilities included collecting and recording data from research trials, assisting professors with projects, and helping with upkeep on the turfgrass plots.

After getting his degree in Agricultural Economics in May of 2013 he began working for a general contractor working in the accounting department. While the company he worked for was a good one and had really great people, he did want to eventually return to the field of agriculture where his roots were. He has always enjoyed meeting new people and many of the relationships he has formed with people in and around the field of agriculture have been the most rewarding of his career.

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Sandy Nigh

Sandy was raised in the Corpus Christi area. She earned her bachelor's degree in agriculture from Stephen F. Austin State University where she studied Horticulture, Row Crops and Ag Business.

Early in her career, she provided natural resource management to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Dept. and the Harris County Parks Dept. before joining Southwest Ag at the Corpus Christi office in 2005. At that time, she worked closely with Coastal Bend farmers tracking their crop data and coordinating corn and grain sales.

In 2013, Sandy shifted her crop focus. She now works primarily with our cotton farmers throughout Texas, providing liaison service between farmers and their buyers, coordinating contracts and pricing.

Sandy currently resides with her husband in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, where they raise heritage breeding stock, providing for the improvement of sheep genetics on ranches across the country. She is an avid reader, and her personal interests include travel, gardening, and outdoor living.

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Bailey Scogin

Bailey was raised in the Rio Grande Valley as the fourth generation on a cotton farm in Lyford, Texas. She attended Lyford High School, where she was heavily involved in athletics, FFA, and 4-H. She enjoyed playing basketball and softball, as well as running for track and cross country. Across FFA and 4-H, Bailey held numerous leadership positions and was drawn to competitions that allowed her to sharpen her public speaking skills and build her agriscience knowledge.

She attended Texas A&M University, where she was involved with COALS Council and served several terms as a Student Senator for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She spent her college summers in Texas and in Idaho interning for an agrochemical company. In May of 2020, she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Plant and Environmental Soil Sciences. Knowing it would be important to experience agriculture systems in different environments, Bailey moved to Carmel, Indiana to begin her career in agrochemical sales. She spent her time there learning about the Midwest corn and soybean markets.

However, the pull of home was strong and an opportunity to cover markets in Texas and Oklahoma moved her to Bryan, Texas in 2023. Looking to challenge herself in a different capacity in the agricultural industry, Bailey joined Southwest Agribusiness Consulting in September of 2025 as the Hedge Desk Manager. She is excited to help be a part of a team helping to provide high quality personalized consulting service to the agricultural community.

She still lives in Bryan, Texas where you can find her on the weekends running through town training for the next race or cheering on the Aggies at any sporting event.

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Wendy Marek

Wendy grew up in Oregon City, Oregon. She came to Texas in 1987 to attend Abilene Christian University for a business degree. Once she got to Texas, she met her future husband, Sonny. Although she has visited Oregon several times, Texas is now her home. Wendy has one daughter in Junior High and accompanying her to extra-curricular activities keeps them both busy. Her interests include crafting, gardening, reading and ceramics.

Wendy worked as a receptionist for a busy veterinarian in El Campo for seven years. When she moved to Edna she went to work for a group of doctors in Victoria for about 3 years. Wendy took several years off to be an at home mom and joined our Edna staff in July of 2011.

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Cyndie Haden

Cyndie was born in Mission, Texas, and graduated from Sharyland High School. As a member of Sharyland Future Farmers of America Cyndie actively raised and showed animals throughout her high school years. Cyndie graduated from the University of Maryland with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Information Systems Management.

Cyndie has been away from the Rio Grande Valley for several years living up and down the east coast and even spent a few years living in Iceland working mainly in the defense industry.

Time and a true longing for the country, has drawn her back to her native Rio Grande Valley where she resides now in Monte Alto, Texas. Always the animal lover, Cyndie now owns four horses, a mule, two donkeys, a llama, two dogs and three cats! She and her daughter Alix are enjoying learning the art of English riding but Cyndie admits that western style will always be her love. Cyndie's son Christopher is a freshman at Texas A&M Galveston with plans to transfer to College Station next fall………his mother's dream! Whoop!

When Cyndie isn't busy with Southwest Ag Consulting or feeding animals and 'running' kids she has found time to attend the Texas Agrilife Extension Service's Master Gardener Program and is working toward becoming a Certified Master Gardener.

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James Miller

James was born and raised in Hereford where his family has lived and farmed since the 1960’s. Agriculture was always important for James even from a young age he could be found every weekend, when not playing football or basketball, with either his father or grandfather on the family farm. He graduated from Hereford High School in 2000.

In the fall of 2000 he enrolled at Texas Tech in Lubbock. There he earned two undergraduate degrees in both accounting and finance. In the summer of 2005 he received a Masters of Science in Finance. He was involved in intramural sports and many other student and social organizations. While at Texas Tech he was a tutor for student athletes in accounting, finance, and business math. Every summer and most every weekend he could be found back in Hereford working on the farm.

In late summer 2005, after much thought of what he really wanted to do, he decided to move back to the panhandle and start Miller Boys, a full service custom farming and harvesting business specializing in silage harvesting. Here he learned from the ground up the work and full time dedication it requires to be successful, and sometimes to barely turn a profit, in agriculture. For 10 yearshe grew a business that serviced clients from San Angelo to Dalhart.

In the summer of 2015 he sold Miller Boys and began searching for an opportunity to work and be active, in a different capacity, in agriculture. This search led him to Southwest Agribusiness Consulting where he has found a chance to work with some of the same farmers, cattlemen, dairymen as he worked with previously.

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