Matt Mattox Team Manager NF3 Team mwmattox@noble.org

• Certified Professional in Rangeland Management (CPRM) by the Society for Range Management
• Master of Agriculture in range science, 1991, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
• Bachelor of Science in range science, 1988, Texas A&M University

Mattox manages NF-3, one of the Noble Foundation's multi-disciplinary teams of agricultural consultants. He is responsible for coordinating the team's consultation activities with existing and prospective cooperators and facilitating a systems approach to help them reach their operational goals. He is also responsible for developing partnerships with organizations to better leverage NF-3 consultation and education efforts. Mattox's responsibilities as the NF-3 pasture & range specialist include consultation on pasture establishment and management, range seeding, range management, grass and weed identification, brush and weed management, electric and conventional fencing development and grazing system design and management.

Before joining the Noble Foundation in 1997, Mattox spent seven years at the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Louisiana as a range and pasture management specialist. At NRCS, he served as a field, area and state specialist and provided technical assistance to agricultural producers in the areas of native and introduced forages, woodland grazing and marsh management.

Mattox is originally from El Paso, Texas.

Online publications include:
Hold On To Your Grass
Establishing Native Grass
Graduate Student Program at the Noble Foundation
Good Management Forms Great Habits
Take Steps to Reduce Risks Involved in Planting, Sprigging
Use Ryegrass to Recover Bermudagrass
What Kind of Forages Do You Really Need?
Considerations to Reduce Further Effects of Drought on Your Operation
Tips for 'Hanging On' in the Current Situation
How Do You Stay in the Upper "Range" of Things?
Explore Forage Alternatives in Southern Plains Pecan Orchards
Project Could Help Reduce Drought's Impact on Producers
Pay Me Now or Pay Me Later
A Picture is Worth a Thousand Pounds (of Forage)
Are You In The Right Ballpark?
Organizations Provide Useful Resources for Farmers, Ranchers
Is There a Niche for Eastern Gamagrass in Southern Oklahoma?
Here's A New Kind of 'B.S.' Degree
Boys will be Boys...and Cows will be Cows
Keep an Eye on Your Keys
Bermudagrass Blues
Evaluation of Methods Used to Predict Supplemental Feeding Needs for Cattle
Grass Mechanics 101
Walk Softly on This Grass of Mine
Same Ol' Song, Different Verse
Gone Native
Things to Know Before Buying a Ranch
Rotational Grazing - Get in the Ballgame
Native Grass - Use (some of) It, Or Lose It
Getting More Out of Your Grass