Pulaski County CES Program Indicators and Success StoriesJul 1, 2022 - Jun 30, 2023





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



Success Stories

Newspaper article

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

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