According to the 2022 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration 7.3 million rural adults reported having a mental health challenge. Suicide rates in Kentucky and our nation have continued to rise since 2003. In general, Kentucky suicide mortality rates are 17% to 27% higher than those in the rest of our nation. People are dying by suicide more frequently in Kentucky. Due to these alarming statistics, the eight-county northern Kentucky area family and consumer sciences agents prov...
The ag agents in Boyd, Carter, Greenup and Lawrence Counties offered the Master Cattlemans Program this spring for the first time in several years. And the response was overwhelming. We had over 60 in... Read More
Over the past few years, a popular programming topic among farmers that I serve has been weed ID and control. I have held several weed ID and control classroom programs, as well as several in-the-fiel... Read More
A community cannot thrive without good leadership. The Butler County Extension Service offered a leadership development workshop for leaders and potential leaders who wanted to increase their knowledg... Read More
As climate variability becomes more extreme, spring growing conditions in winter wheat have also become more extreme. These extreme conditions are more routinely resulting in spring temperatures that ... Read More