Tyler in the News

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10.28.21 // Jack R. Jordan, Moultrie Observer

Ag commissioner candidate a 7th-generation farmer

Tyler Harper, District 7 Georgia State Senator, is currently the only official candidate for the soon to be open Georgia Agriculture Commissioner position.
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10.15.21 // Patricia Murphy, AJC

OPINION: Ga.’s No. 1 industry has a No. 1 need: More people

If Georgia’s agriculture industry had more Tyler Harpers, its biggest challenge — a critical shortage of people — would melt away.
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10.04.21 // Al Hackle, Statesboro Herald

Tyler Harper campaigns for ag commissioner on experience as farmer and state senator

State Sen. Tyler Harper, an Irwin County farmer now campaigning to become Georgia’s commissioner of agriculture, visited Statesboro on Friday and talked about how he wants to build on his past role in farming-related legislation to become the state’s leading official promoter of agriculture, its largest industry.
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09.20.21 // Carlton Fletcher, Albany Herald

Ocilla’s Tyler Harper has the agriculture bona fides

While it would be nice — though impossible in today’s ultra-partisan atmosphere — to throw out all the stereotypical political hoo-hah that now inundates every element of modern-day life and talk about what really matters, that’s just not reality.
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08.25.21 // Jessica Szilagyi, Georgia Virtue

Republicans Senators Throw Support Behind Harper In Ag Commissioner Race

A Republican candidate for Agriculture Commissioner Tyler Harper announced last week that nearly every Republican member of the Georgia State Senate had endorsed his campaign. Harper is currently a State Senator representing Ocilla and the surrounding area.
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06.29.21 // Greg Bluestein, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Georgia 2022: Tyler Harper is running for agriculture commissioner

Republican state Sen. Tyler Harper launched his campaign Tuesday for agriculture commissioner with an emphasis on his family’s deep roots in farming and a pledge to keep “liberal Washington, D.C. policies out of Georgia.”