Author: Benjamin Rudy
Planning Unit: Fulton County CES
Major Program: Ag Policy
Plan of Work: Increasing Agricultural Stability through Cropping Systems, Marketing, and Pest Management
Outcome: Intermediate Outcome
his year our Winter Ag Conference focused on the Farm Bill. The Farm Bill is important to farmers’ daily activities. Crop sales just in Fulton County is $44,390,000. The need for this information to get out is necessary to our producers. We teamed up with Adult agriculture educators from WKCTC to bring an informational meeting to the farmers on the new information. The meeting was hosted in Pilot Oak, Kentucky by Lowry Farms. Agriculture agents from Graves, Fulton, Calloway, Marshall, Hickman, and Carlisle County hosted the Winter Agriculture Conference in Pilot Oak. The program consisted of Farm Bill Update with Dr. Snell form UK. Joe Cain gave updates from Farm Bureau related to the Farm Bill. Following lunch there was a separate meeting for the Dicamba training with Bayer chemical, by Glen Pendergrass. 245 farmers and several sponsors attended the morning session. Lunch and door prizes were provided by 20 product vendors on site. The Dicamba session had 105 in attendance. 31% of producers surveyed found that the value of the content presented by speakers was very valuable while 76% said it was valuable. 94% felt the conference as a whole was relevant to their needs. 96% thought the conference was well organized. 30% of producers strongly agreed and 67 % agreed that the content was related to current needs of the agriculture industry. Our attendance was the second best in the last four years.
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