Hardin County CES Program Indicators and Success Stories - Jul 1, 2019

Hardin County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2019 - Jun 30, 2020

1083 - Ag Policy
1083.1)	50	Number of producers reporting an increased knowledge of farm bill programs
1083.2)	45	Number of producers incorporating increase knowledge of farm bill programs in enrollment decisions
1083.3)	50	Number of producers indicating an increased knowledge of economic impacts of environmental policy
1083.4)	20	Number of producers making changes to their operation as a result of increase knowledge of economic impacts of environmental policy

1083 - Ag Policy

1083.1)

Number of producers reporting an increased knowledge of farm bill programs

1083.2)

Number of producers incorporating increase knowledge of farm bill programs in enrollment decisions

1083.3)

Number of producers indicating an increased knowledge of economic impacts of environmental policy

1083.4)

Number of producers making changes to their operation as a result of increase knowledge of economic impacts of environmental policy

Success Stories

Dirt 2 Dollars Reaches New Audiences

Author: Matthew Adams

Major Program: Ag Policy

Cooperative Extension Agents are continuously looking for ideas to help reach new audiences to educate and communicate. Agriculture and Natural Resources Agents Matt Adams (Hardin), Whitney Carman (Grayson) and Daniel Carpenter (LaRue) specifically were looking for ways to reach the young farmer population, a group that can be difficult to reach in the current educational methods. One way that the agents looked into is podcasting. Podcasting uses the internet to make recordings of broadcasts ava