[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 156 (2010), Part 6]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 8892]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                     HONORING MR. HILTON R. SEGLER

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                         Thursday, May 20, 2010

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise today to honor Mr. 
Hilton R. Segler, a man I am proud to call my friend and constituent. 
He is an accomplished public servant who has devoted his life to his 
community, state and country.
  Mr. Segler was born in Ozark, Alabama and moved to Albany, Georgia in 
1948. He graduated from Albany High School and went on to pursue 
several correspondence degrees in Law and Business. In 1957, Mr. Segler 
started working for Southeastern Liquid Fertilizer in Albany, Georgia, 
and then served as the Assistant to the President of Planters Chemical 
Company in Virginia. He then moved back to Albany in 1964 to work for 
the Thompson/Hayward Chemical Company and was appointed Regional 
Manager for the company in 1981.
  Mr. Segler also has served the TIDA Farm Service Center as a 
salesman; his sales exceeded $1.5 million in his first year, and $3 
million in his second year, thus proving his acuity as a salesman. In 
the early 1990s he purchased a pecan farm and farmed over 1900 acres of 
pecan trees for almost 6 years. He later started a nickel nutrient 
supplement company named Nipan, LLC in 2003. Products from his company 
have gained tremendous popularity in the last few years and are shipped 
all over the United States.
  In 2002, Mr. Segler, along with Bucky Geer and James Lee Adams, 
testified to the federal board at the Risk Management Agency on behalf 
of pecan growers. His undying efforts helped pecan growers across the 
United States attain crop insurance. Mr. Segler testified before the 
House and Senate Committees on Agriculture in an effort to obtain 
larger provisions for the pecan industry in the 2008 Farm bill. 
Consequently, pecans were included in the Country of Origin labeling 
requirements and also in the crop insurance program.
  He also worked to expand pecan exports to China and other 
agricultural economies, by partnering with the United States Department 
of Agriculture and Georgia Department of Agriculture. He pushed for 
pecan farmers' participation in the Market Access program, a program 
that helps finance promotional activities for U.S. agricultural 
products.
  In 2004, Hilton championed to obtain ``clean up'' assistance for 
pecan farmers who were hurt by hurricanes that devastated parts of 
Georgia and Alabama. Earlier this year, Mr. Segler testified before the 
House Agriculture Committee on the future of the pecan industry and the 
importance of nutrition and trade to this industry, for the 2010 Farm 
bill.
  Madam Speaker, the State of Georgia, especially the Second 
Congressional District, and our nation are truly blessed to have 
benefited from the tremendous leadership of Mr. Hilton R. Segler. We 
greatly appreciate his compassion, his love and concern for the farmers 
of this State and of his intense desire to help others.