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February 2, 2022
Monroe Co. agent now
By Diane Glidewell
news@mymcr.net
Caitlin Jackson has been the co
ordinator and agriculture & natu
ral resources agent at Monroe
County Extension for the last five
years, taking over responsibilities
from long-time agent John Pope
after his retirement. Friday, Jan.
21 was her last day at the Monroe
County office as she left to pursue
a new opportunity in a special
ized aspect of agriculture that
holds a particular interest for her.
Caitlin is now the first executive
director of the American Dorper
Sheep Breeders Society. She said
the organization was established
in 1996 but has now reached the
point of employing a full-time
executive director. She looks
forward to working with the
groups members as the organiza
tion continues to grow. She will
primarily work from her home
in Jones County but will travel
nationally to Dorper sheep sales
and shows.
Working with sheep, goat and
llama enthusiasts through her
Extension position was one of
Caitlins passions. She worked
with other agents to hold a Mas
ter Agriculture Manager program
for small ruminants that was well
attended. She began the publica
tion of “BLEAT,” a publication
with news and features of interest
to sheep and goat producers.
Caitlin said other agents who
worked with her have agreed to
keep the program and publica
tion going. She also worked with
4-Hers in raising and showing
sheep and goats.
Caitlin built up the 4-H horse
program in Monroe County,
adding new opportunities for
4-Her’s interested in horses. She
worked with the Monroe County
Cattlemens Association and the
dairy and beef cattle produc
ers in the county, including the
Monroe County HERD program,
which focuses on heifer develop-
^Reporter
director of Dorper Sheep Breeders
Monroe County Extension coordinator/agriculture & natural resources
agent Caitlin Bennett Jackson is pictured at her farewell reception on
Jan. 21 with her husband, Brannen, and daughter, Teagan, 2.
ment. She said the development of virtual programs necessitated
by Covid restrictions helped the
cattle, horse, sheep and goat pro
grams to reach over 600 people in
40 states and seven countries.
Caitlin won the National As
sociation of County Agents 2020
Achievement Award for agents
with five to 10 years experience.
“The best part of the job is
working with people in Mon
roe County’ said Caitlin. “I
have developed not just profes
sional relationships but also great
friendships.”
She has been working for
University of Georgia Extension
for nine years. Caitlin notes that
her family will continue to be an
Extension family since her hus
band, Brennan, is a county agent
in Jones County.
Caitlin bid farewell to her Mon
roe County colleagues at a sheep-
themed reception her co-workers
held for her on Jan. 21.
“It’s never good bye, just see
ewe’ later,” wrote Caitlin.
Did you know?
Snapshots from
Monroe Co. History
D id you know that
Forsyth's West Main
Street once looked like
this? Although this
post card has no date stamp, the
Auburn Greeting Card Company,
in operation between 1929 and
1933, produced it.
West Main Street is identified
as the Dixie Highway.. More ac
curately it would be called part of
the Dixie Highway system, which
ran from
Michigan
to Florida
and at
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BICENTENNim
* CELEBRATING SOD YERRS *
E5T. 1821
places had
parallel
routes. In
Monroe county, the Dixie High
way today is Highway 41, run
ning from Barnesville to Macon.
The designation, Dixie Highway,
resulted from the publicity and
lobbying of the
Dixie Highway As
sociation, a group
of businessmen from many states
along its routes who were con
cerned with improved roads and
Dixie Highway, West Main Street, Forsyth, Georgia
economic development, espe
cially tourist development.
Although it is not clear from
this photograph, by 1926 the Di
xie High
way from
Forsyth to
Barnesville
had been
paved with
two nine-
foot lanes.
Today
Dixie
Highway is
gone from
local usage.
The name
is, however,
preserved
on Inter
state 75
south of Atlanta where Highway
41 crosses 1-75. There the exit is
named "Old Dixie Highway."
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