Philip Dixon
USDA NRCABorn and raised on a rural farm on the Cumberland Plateau area of Tennessee in the heart of the Appalachia. After high school, attended the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and graduated with an agriculture degree with a major in Soil Science. Immediately after college, was hired as a Soil Scientist for the Granger Co. Soil Survey. My main duties were mapping and study soils for the Cooperative soil survey. 2 years later I was offered a position with the USDA-NRCS in Huntington, West Virginia as a Survey Soil Scientist. I mapped soils for the next 2 years, field mapping over 60,000 acres. I was then chosen for the position of District Soil Conservationist for Clay County Tenn. where I served in that position along with the addition of two other counties for the next 19 years. In 2010, I was chosen to become the District Soil Conservationist in Cumberland/Morgan Counties, Tenn. I served the farmers/landowners in that area until 2016 where I was then chosen to be the District Soil Conservationist in my current position for Los Angeles County and parts of Kern and Tulare Counties. I am extremely well versed on conservation planning and getting conservation practices applied on the ground (My goal for life). I have built, designed and certified millions of dollars of cost-share monies and thousands of conservation practices that help people help the land. I am also a farmer who has grown tobacco, corn, pumpkin, cattle, sheep, goat and horses.
In my extra time, I have been a High School Basketball referee for 15 years and 5 years as a High School Girls Softball team. Also, I am the Vice Chairman for the California Envirothon committee.
My current work area is over 2 million acres and covering over 12 million people in a diversified setting of urban Los Angeles to cattle farming and desert regions of Kern and Tulara Counties.