Trent was the Sr. Associate Director of the Tribal Extension Program at the University of Arizona and an Extension Specialist with the Department of Ag and Resource Economics for 14 and 27 years, respectively. He has worked with a variety of agricultural enterprises, including dry-land farming in the mid-west, irrigated agriculture in the southwest, and livestock production in the northeast, mountain west, and southwest; he has also worked with the green industry in the west and with the fruit, nut, and vegetable producers in the northeast and southwest. Over the past 40 + years, he has worked with tribal communities across the Nation, assisting with agricultural production and economic development issues. He joined the University of Arizona’s Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics in 1997 after spending two years as a Farm Business Management Specialist with Cornell Cooperative Extension, working in farm finance and risk management areas. His main area of concentration included fostering Tribal relations for CALS Cooperative Extension, assisting with production economics, tribal agriculture, risk management, ag entrepreneurial, and agricultural tax issues.