The ANR agent along with agents from Garrard, Lincoln and Mercer counties conducted three area meetings. Tobacco with 95 in attendance, area forage with 87 in attendance, and area beef backgrounders meeting with 105 in attendance. Various topics are covered with specialists and agents delivering the educational materials. It satisfies the educational requirement for cost share funds

and we had producers tell us in surveys what they learned and how they were going to use the information on their farms. A majority (70%) of participants said they were going to implement one of the 

practices that they heard about at the meeting. We also ask them to tell us some topics that they would like to hear presented for the next year. This helps the agents in meeting planning and allows us to make sure we broaden the topics so that we are providing material that producers want.