This year I worked with our Livestock club for the first time as the point agent. We started the year by assembling the parents and CLVs in a meeting to determine the future direction of the club as a whole. We as a group decided that the main focus for the year would be stability, fundraising, and recruitment. For the first time in recent memory we elected an officer team to direct the club activities, and lead the group, this greatly increased the involvement of our older youth. Some of the ke...
W. Garrett Owen is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist of floriculture, greenhouse and controlled-environment crop production in the Department of Horticulture at the University of Kentuck... More
Funding year 2018 of the Kentucky Military Teen Adventure Camps (MTAC) has been yet another success! With a total of 5 camps from April 2018- August 2018. Families including service members or spouses... Read More
The state of Kentuckys agricultural education programs in high schools have several career pathways in which students may choose to emphasize. One career pathway is the agribiotechnoloy pathway, which... Read More
The U. S. Department of Commerce declared that science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) occupations are growing at a 7.2% quicker rate than other occupations. STEM employees play a critical ro... Read More
Ventilating pastured poultry farms is challenging because the openings to allow the birds onto the pasture create cold air drafts in the barn in winter. Through a relationship built with a farmer here... Read More