Author: Christan Miracle
Major Program: Dairy
21st Century is a program that many public schools offer to school age youth to participate in as an after school activity. During the relationship that the Marion Co. Extension Office has built with the Marion Co. Public School Systems’ 21st Century Program, we as an office have been able to be a part of the programs summer camps. Each year the 21st Century Coordinator will host a camp for students to attend with many different activities to take part in during a week to two week day camp
Author: Linda McClanahan
The Mercer County Extension Office partnered with the Mercer County Farm Bureau Federation to celebrate Kentucky Agriculture Week and National Agriculture Day. Each year, the American Farm Bureau Federation selects an accurate agriculture book of the year and typically this book gets read in elementary school classrooms. Due to COVID-19 restrictions volunteers could not enter the schools to read. So, we took the books to the students virtually. The extension office worked with county farm bureau
Author: Donna Amaral-Phillips
Multi-State Program: In 2020 in response to travel restrictions for 4-H teams associated with COVID-19, a new national-type, youth program, the North American Dairy Educational Experience (NADEE), was developed and implemented to replace the educational experience associated with the 2020 North American 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl. This educational experience is different from a “Quiz Bowl” contest as it does not involve fact recital, but rather asks youth to integrate concepts a
Author: Kevin Lyons
The Mammoth Cave area is the heart of the dairy industry in Kentucky. Over 50% of the state’s total dairies and over 75% of the state’s total dairy cattle are located in south-central Kentucky. Many people do not fully understand where there food comes from, and it is important to continually promote the importance of agriculture in their lives.UK Cooperative Extension Service Agents from this area joined forces to produce an educational video that not only focuses on dairy pro
Author: Nick Roy
In Adair County, the dairy industry produce $13.2 million dollars in products each year. Mastitis not only reduces milk quality, but also results in a reduction in the amount of milk produced and sold from the farm. In 2020, the Adair County Cooperative Extension Service launched the Adair County Milk Quality Initiative (ACMQI) to improve milk quality among Adair County dairy farms.26 of the Adair County dairy farms (93%) opted to participate in the ACMQI program. The first step of t
Author: Gary Bell
The Mammoth Cave area is the heart of the dairy industry in Kentucky. Over 50% of the state’s total dairies and over 75% of the state’s total dairy cattle are located in south central Kentucky. Agents from this area joined forces to bring an educational video that not only focuses on dairy production but adding value past the farm gate. Legacy Dairy owned by the Jones family, bottles the milk from their cows right on the farm. The non-homogenized, yet pasteurized m
Author: Christopher Schalk
