Success StoryKentucky Agriculture Training School (KATS)



Kentucky Agriculture Training School (KATS)

Author: Edwin Ritchey

Planning Unit: Plant and Soil Sciences

Major Program: Grains

Outcome: Intermediate Outcome

The UK Wheat Field School was initiated in 2016 to provide real life scenarios for crop advisors, managers, and others in the agricultural field. In 2018 the Wheat Field School was changed to KATS to include other crops commonly grown in Kentucky and surrounding states. The trainings in 2020 started out with two in-person and have grown to provide up to more than five to six trainings per year. We have dealt with COVID 19, an EF 4 tornado, inadequate facilities for inside trainings after the tornado, and other obstacles but continue to provide the most current management practices and information for crop consultants, farm managers, extension personnel, and other agriculturalists. Attendees come from multiple states, including Tennessee, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio. Many of the attendees have attended multiple KATS trainings which is a testament to the quality of the information provided.






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