Douglas Mayor Corey Hill is on the air.

The Marshall County Republican released his first television spot in the race for Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries, a 30-second buy titled “The Farmer’s Choice” that will run on broadcast stations and streaming platforms statewide.

“I’m Corey Hill, and I’m proud to be a farmer,” he says in the ad.

“My family has farmed this land for three generations, raising the beef and chickens that make your dinner. But farming isn’t just a job to me — it’s my friends, my family, my life.

That’s why I’m the farmer’s choice to be Alabama’s next Agricultural Commissioner. Because what we grow and what you eat — it matters.”

Hill, a fourth-generation farmer who raises cattle and poultry, and owns a grocery store in Douglas, enters the paid-media phase of the campaign backed by two of the state’s most coveted agricultural seals of approval: The Alabama Farmers Federation’s FarmPAC and, BeefPAC, the political arm of the Alabama Cattlemen’s Association.

Hill is one of three Republicans competing in the May 19 primary for the open seat. Incumbent Rick Pate is term-limited and running for lieutenant governor.

State Sen. Jack Williams (R-Wilmer), a fifth-generation Mobile County farmer and 12-year legislator, has led the field in fundraising and recently picked up the endorsement of Manufacture Alabama.

Baldwin County agribusinesswoman Christina Woerner McInnis, a fifth-generation farmer and founder of AgriTech Corp, rounds out the GOP field.

Former Commissioner Ron Sparks, a Democrat candidate, awaits the GOP winner in November.