Success Stories

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  February

  Private Pesticide Applicator Training

  Each year more than $12 million dollars of pesticides are purchased and applied to over 200,000 acres in Daviess County in no less than two applications resulting in a minimum of 400,000 acres treated...

  
  

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• 25

  February

  High School Student Crop Scouting Training

  Grain production is the primary agricultural enterprise in Daviess County encompassing more than 200,000 acres annually; nearly two thirds of the land surface of the county. An important task assigne...

  
  

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• 05

  July

  Daviess County Extension grain variety yield demonstration

  Land utilized for corn and soybean production comprises approximately 148,000 acres, nearly 50%, of Daviess Countys land surface. Combined, their gross value annually meets or exceeds 200 million doll...

  
  

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  July

  Teaching nutrition to youth

  The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program comprises more 75% of the USDA Farm Bill budget allocation. There are tens of millions of Americans who meet the economic threshold which qualifies them f...

  
  

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