Extension
It Starts With Us
| 1081 - Farm Management, Economics and Policy | ||
|---|---|---|
| 1081.2) | 100 |
Number of people who recognize methods to reduce risk and improve farm profit |
| 1081.5) | 150 |
Number of people who improved or maintained record keeping practices |
| 1081.7) | 25 |
Number of people who applied marketing techniques for meat animals |
| 1081.6) | 500 |
Number of people who incorporated technology to effectively manage farm operations |
| 1081.8) | 25 |
Number of people who applied marketing techniques including futures and options to reduce risk levels for crops |
| 1081.8) | 0 |
Number of people who adopted practices or adapted equipment for safety (i.e. Agribility, install roll over bar) |
| 1081.10) | 100 |
Number of farmers adopting new technologies in agriculture production |
| 1081.11) | 250 |
Number of people who improved equipment or facilities |
| 1081.12) | 500 |
Number of people who increased profits, reduced expenses, and/or reduced risk |
| 1081.4) | 500 |
Number of people who increased knowledge of farm health and safety practices (i.e. farm safety days, disaster preparedness, equipment demonstrations, farmers dinner theater) |
| 1081.3) | 100 |
Number of people who discussed and compared leasing agreements and options |
| 1081.1) | 100 |
Number of people who increased their knowledge of Ag Policy including: Farm Bill and Environmental issues |
Author: Trent Adkins
Major Program: Farm Management, Economics and Policy
One of the task that was ask by the producers of Pulaski county of the new Agriculture and Natural Resources agent was to start running articles in the local paper like the horticulture and FCS agent does.To honor this request we started a weekly newspaper article that runs in the Sunday paper, and online at the commonwealth journals website and the ANR page of the extension website. These articles try to reach a wide variety of topics, while also hitting topic that are related at the time
