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It Starts With Us
| 1051 - Commercial Horticulture | ||
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| 1051.1) | 18 |
Number of participants engaged in commercial horticulture programming |
Author: Robert Kirby
Major Program: Commercial Horticulture
With the tobacco buyout leaving farmers with machinery, greenhouses and the need to ease their dependency on tobacco several Knox County farmers have chosen Commercial Horticulture. Through the Knox County Extension Service and resources from the University of Kentucky such as newsletters on farm demonstrations, variety trials, farm visits, field trips, educational programming and farm visits from University Specialist, producers have met their production needs and supplementing their farm
Author: Robert Kirby
Major Program: Commercial Horticulture
With most of the high tunnels in Knox County being NRCS grant funded, certain stipulations are agreed upon by producers when receiving the grant. One of the stipulations is that producers will agree to grow produce in the ground of the high tunnel for a minimum of four years. Almost all producers in the county have selected tomatoes as their primary crop because of the profit potential but have struggled growing in the ground the second and third years because of nematodes. To address the
Author: Robert Kirby
Major Program: Commercial Horticulture
Thru efforts of the University of Kentucky Horticulture Specialist, a three night education webinar series on high tunnel tomato production was offered across the state for agents to host in their counties. These webinars were hosted by our local Knox County Agriculture and Natural Resource agent where the series was well attended. All participants have reported less disease and insect pressure as well as an increase of five or more pounds of tomatoes per plant production. Participan
