Laurel County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2018 - Jun 30, 2019





1013 - Aquaculture
1013.1) 1

Number of producers who incorporated best practices recommended by Extension



Success Stories

Aquaculture Update

Author: Victor Williams

Major Program: Aquaculture

Aquaculture UpdateThe decline of tobacco production due to the tobacco buyout and the difficulty in procuring burley tobacco contracts has farm diversification at the forefront of farm owners’ priorities. The research that the London Utility Commission and Kentucky State University Division of Aquaculture are conducting in the county has added aquaculture to the list of diversification possibilities. KSU installed a raceway system into an existing catfish operation in the East Be

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