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| 1081 - Farm Management | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1081.1) | 11 |
Number of producers/landowners willing to make a change to their leasing strategy |
| 1081.2) | 31 |
Number of producers/landowners who better understand land leasing options (including advantages/disadvantages of each) |
| 1081.3) | 19 |
Number of producers who are comfortable using financial principles in their operations |
| 1081.4) | 35 |
Number of producers willing to adopt improved soil health/quality practices to improve profitability due to extension programming efforts |
| 1081.5) | 5 |
Number of producers reporting improved machinery management through Extension programming efforts |
| 1081.6) | 42 |
Number of producers who gained knowledge of farm profitability for their enterprise(s) from Extension programming |
| 1081.7) | 7 |
Number of producers reporting increased profits and/or reduced risk due to farm management strategies learned through Extension programs |
Author: Curtis Dame
Major Program: Farm Management
Input prices and the cost of capital expenditures continue to raise annually. This fact is continually realized by producers in Hopkins County, Kentucky. With that said cooperative efforts have been made to provide shared-use equipment and educational opportunities with contributing funds provided by Hopkins County Farm Bureau, Calhoun Feed Service and educational programming by the Hopkins County Cooperative Extension Service. With a second year of implementation underway the equipment po
Author: Curtis Dame
Major Program: Farm Management
Farm management relies heavily on realizing the costs ofproduction, proper management and utilization of technology, techniques andresearch. For the second year agriculture and natural resource agents fromHopkins, Muhlenberg and Webster counties have worked cooperatively with theMadisonville-Hopkins County Economic Development Corporation to plan and hostthe Roots to Riches Agri-preneurial Conference in hopes of promoting increasedrisk management as well as providing a one-stop shop for local pr
Author: Curtis Dame
Major Program: Farm Management
Farm equipment continues to grow in size and depending on the time of year the frequency on local roadways will increase as well. With that said safety should always be a contributing factor in how producers and motorists plan for encounters on local roadways. Recently cooperative efforts were made between Agriculture and Natural Resource Agents in Hopkins and Muhlenberg Counties to address this growing concern of farm equipment safety on Kentucky roadways. In order to address key areas of conce
Author: Curtis Dame
Major Program: Farm Management
Since 2013 on-farm research in Hopkins County has been a well received program provided by extension personnel. With that said efforts have been made to answer producer questions related to products that been highly touted, but lack data to prove that claims of profit increases are actually tested and sound. Expansion of these efforts have been driven by producer committees that have selected which products would be tested. In the spring of 2018 data analysis showed significant results on a majo
