Owen County Kentucky has 157,396 acres of reported farmland. That requires a lot of fences to be installed, maintained, and repaired around the county. Fences may be used to protect or divide property, to improve its appearance, to confine animals, or to exclude animals. Fencing is one of the best long-term investments you’ll make on your farm. A good fence should last anywhere from 25 to 50 years.

It would be a safe to say, there has been a generation removed from the farm. A lot of beginning farmers and homesteaders can’t rely on their parents for these for the skilled techniques required to build a fence.

On September 24^th 2022 the Owen County Cooperative Extension Office conducted a fencing school. The participants met that morning and learned Kentucky laws on fencing, planning considerations, the different types of fence and wire, materials, and electric fence basics. That afternoon the class applied the skills in a hands on setting and built a section of fence.

Many of the participants had attended the University of Kentucky’s Extension Grazing School some point in their life but needed a refreshing of these skills