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Sumter County
UGA Extension Office

Our Impact

Making A Difference in Our County

University of Georgia Cooperative Extension is working hard for its constituents.

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FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENCES

Mitzi Parker, Sumter County’s Family and Consumer Sciences Agent, provides community members with practical knowledge and skills that support healthier lifestyles and improved well-being. Educational programs include ServSafe® Food Protection Manager food safety training, Health and Wellness programming, financial literacy programming, and free Federal and State income tax preparation through the Volunteer Income Assistance Program (VITA).

4-H YOUTH DEVELOPMENT

4-H is the nation’s largest youth leadership development organization empowering nearly six million young people across the U.S. with the skills to lead for a lifetime and Georgia is proud to be one of the largest state programs in the country with almost 170,000 active 4-H’ers across the state.
The mission of Sumter County 4-H is to assist youth in acquiring knowledge, developing life skills, and forming attitudes that will enable them to become self-directing, productive and contributing members of society. This mission is accomplished, through “hands on” learning experiences, focused on agricultural and environmental issues, agriculture awareness, leadership, communication skills, foods and nutrition, health, energy conservation, and citizenship. There are currently 660 students enrolled in Sumter County 4-H in in-school programming.
Exploring and discovering, encouraging and challenging, that’s what Sumter County 4-H is all about. As a program of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension System, 4-H is part of the nationwide Extension network.

AGRICULTURE AND NATURAL RESOURCES

Sumter County ANR hosted 5 production meetings in 2026 with an average of 40 farmers per meeting. Production meetings provide non-biased research-based data on row crops such as corn, cotton, and peanuts to the growers of Sumter County. Sumter County Extension/4-H host an annual Youth Ag Day at the Southwest Georgia Research and Education Center in Plains, Georgia. Our goal is to promote and educate middle school students about local Agriculture and Agri-business.