KSU Small Farm ProgramMajor Program

11042

Total Hours

Contributed.

29281

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

1248

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

155

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of producers participating in KSU small farm programming

191

Number of producers who reported putting into practice what they learned as a result of participating in KSU small farm programs

85

Stories

Help on the farm

Farmers are having to hire more people to work on their farm (Farm Labor). This is raising the cost of labor that farmers will have to pay. So farmers are looking for a way to reduce the labor cost on the farm. Also the decrease of people for labor. To help with this problem in Breckinridge County, Kentucky State University has provided the Small Farm Agent with plastic mulch equipment. This will give the farmer a chance to reduce the cost and the amount of labor needed on the farm to produc...

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