On September 8th, 2022, I hosted a record keeping program at the extension office. As a part of this program, I contacted Katie Taylor from our local Farm Service Agency to come help explain the importance of record keeping. The program was held at the Trimble County Extension Office. The program was targeted for farmers but was open to anyone looking to improve their record keeping skills. 

We had 11 participants show up for the program. Katie spoke first about why keeping records are important. She indicated the advantages that can come from the records that people keep. She also talked about how in depth the records need to be in order for the FSA to help people. I spoke about the many different ways that you are able to keep your records. 

One of the main record keeping ways that I focused on was the X10D app that les Anderson, UK Beef Specialist, has been working on. I was able to present it to the people in hopes that this could be a good way to spread information about upcoming events, communicate with other farmers, and to communicate with me their agent. 

In December of 2022, I sent out a survey about the changes people have made after taking the record keeping class. I had 3 responses of the survey. With this survey I was able to ask a few questions to help me decide, the best way to contact people to attend lessons, what they are implementing on the farm, what they learned, and if they plan on coming back to another Trimble County Class. 

From the results, I found that the newsletter is the best way to reach people, as well as using Facebook. There are a number of ways to keep records that they are enjoying and implementing on their homesteads. The best was to know what other classes would be important to them, with this I have had multiple people interested in beekeeping type of learning, so I am currently being in contact with beekeeping clubs from surrounding counties to find a teacher for the program.