TPPB Directors
Shelly Nutt
TPPB Executive Director
Shelly Nutt has been the executive director for the Texas Peanut Producers Board since April 2003.
Nutt grew up in Crosbyton, Texas, where cotton is the thriving commodity. She attended Texas Tech University before beginning her career with the Texas Corn Producers Board, Texas Corn Growers Association and American Corn Growers Association, where she gained commodity board and political experience over the next 16 years.
After gaining this experience with the corn industry and issues facing agriculture as a whole, TPPB hired Nutt as its executive director. In the years since, she has come to know peanut farmers and has learned how resilient and innovative they are with their practices.
In Nutt’s current position, she develops a variety of programs based on the Board’s mission and objectives. Nutt works with the Texas Department of Agriculture on budget issues and communicates with Texas peanut farmers about rising issues in the peanut industry.
Additionally, she is in charge of the research program for both domestic and foreign markets. Nutt also works to expand and maintain Texas peanut markets nationally and internationally.
With the demand of food production on the rise, Nutt sees the future of innovation, technology and scientific advances as the solution to sustaining agriculture. Farmers will have to grow more food on less land. Texas farmers are up to the challenge and so is Nutt.
Nutt has two daughters: Shauna, 23, a Tarleton State University graduate who now works with American Bank of Commerce and Stormy, 21, who attends Texas Tech University.
