Extension
It Starts With Us
ANR Local Food Systems
Promote Best Management Practices for Agriculture
Dan Allen
Local Food Systems
Kenton County is a diverse county and we have people producing food at all levels, from traditional commercial operations to self-sustaining homesteading food production.
Increase the availability of food for Kenton County residents interested in producing their own food.
Implementation of practices needed to produce food.
Residents learn how to best raise their own food for their consumption.
Initial Outcome: Food raised for a family
Indicator: Increased food is produced
Method: Surveys and conversations
Timeline: Spring 2018, 2019, 2020
Intermediate Outcome: Less reliance on processed expensive food.
Long-term Outcome: Economic and better health.
Audience: Residents or landowners in Kenton County
Project or Activity: Freezer Beef, Raising Pork for a Family, Poultry for Meat and Eggs
Content or Curriculum: UK Curriculum
Inputs: Agent and specialists
Date: March 2018, 2019, 2020; April 2018, 2019, 2020; May 2018, 2019, 2020
Audience: First-Time Farmers
Project or Activity: Farm Start
Content or Curriculum: UK C.E.S. curriculum
Inputs: UK Agents, Specialists and UK Ag Agents
Date: September 2017 - March 2018
Audience: Kenton County Residents
Project or Activity: NKY Food Summit
Content or Curriculum: UK SNAP, FCS, ANR pubs
Inputs: ANR Agent
Date: Ongoing
Audience: Kenton County Freezer Pork Producers
Project or Activity: Field Trip to Black Oak Holler
Content or Curriculum: WVU Pasture Pork
Inputs: WVU Specialist
Date: April 2018
Author: Daniel Allen
Major Program: Beef
The quality of a beef herd is directly affected by the selection and health of the herd’s bull. In an effort to ensure that local beef producer’s bulls are ready for the breeding season, Boone and Kenton County Cooperative Extension Service offers bull soundness exams (BSE) in cooperation with a local veterinarian. A basic BSE evaluates, physical soundness, reproductive tract soundness, required scrotal circumference, determination of sperm cell count and sperm mobility. According to
Author: Daniel Allen
Major Program: Farm Management
Delivery of programming to our agriculture community has been traditionally a classroom, lecture or field day demonstration. A 2009 focus group study by Virginia Tech extension service, indicated that peer teaching and learning was a preferred way of learning by many participants, (85%). One of the strengths of the Cooperative Extension Service is getting people to the table around subjects to open dialogue so that learning takes place. The Kenton County Agriculture Agent held a series of Friday
