Fulton County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2017 - Jun 30, 2018





1071 - Grain Crops
1071.1) 150

Number of producers  who plan to utilize IPM practices for grain crops production as recommended by Extension

1071.2) 75

Number of producers who utilized IPM practices for grain crops production as recommended by Extension

1071.3) 150

Number of producers  planning to adopt the usage of new technology for crop production

1071.4) 113

Number of producers who adopted the usage of new technology for crop production

1071.5) 75

Number of producers who plan to use diagnostic services to identify insects, disease and/or weeds

1071.6) 25

Number of producers who used diagnostic services to identify insects, disease and/or weeds

1071.7) 50

Number of producers who plan to adopt one or more fertility management recommendations

1071.8) 20

Number of producers who adopted one or more fertility management recommendations

1071.9) 50

Number of producers who plan to implement on-farm trials

1071.10) 30

Number of producers who implemented on-farm trials

1071.11) 100

Number of producers adopting grain crop production practices that improve environmental/water quality



Success Stories

Winter Ag Conference - New Pest Guidelines and Farm Safety

Author: Benjamin Rudy

Major Program: Grain Crops

This year our Winter Ag Conference focused on two new chemicals and the new label guidelines for them. With 89% of the land in Fulton County in row crop along with 91% in Hickman and 83% in Carlise County the new guidelines for Xtendimax Max and Engenia for soybeans will be a choice farmers will have to make again this year. Crop sales just in Fulton County is $33,715,000. The need for this new information to get out is necessary to our producers. We teamed up with Adult agriculture educators fr

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