Kentucky | Morning Ag Clips

April 24, 2018

Kristi Durbin and Mark Williams will share the Standard Operating Procedures used on UK's Organic Farming Unit (developed over decades of diversified farming) and provide a "show and tell" of the techniques, machinery, hand tools, & bed preparation used in their production. (Courtesy of OAK)

FIELD DAY ...

Direct seeding, transplanting, field management

Organic Association of Kentucky Field Day to be held May 21

April 24, 2018

Montgomery County FFA students greet USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue at the Chenault Agriculture Center near Mount Sterling. (Courtesy of Farmstead Media)

AG SECRETARY VISIT ...

USDA Secretary visits Kentucky

Perdue makes a two-day sweep through the northeastern and central portions of Kentucky

April 24, 2018

AG POLICY ...

Committee approves Recreation-Not-Red Tape Act

Committee action gives the RNR Act the green light to advance to the House floor

April 23, 2018

VOTE NOW! ...

9 chicks competing for #ChickStrong title

Purina Poultry hosting nationwide contest in search for America's strongest chick

April 23, 2018

Ask any farmer and they will likely say spring planting is one of their favorite times of the year. It is a chance to shake off the winter weather and look forward to the growing season ahead. (Courtesy of Kentucky Farm Bureau)

SPRING ...

Springtime in Kentucky

So far, the weather word this year has been “wet’”

April 23, 2018

farmers market

PODCAST ...

It's roadside farm market season

Farm Bureau Roadside Farm Market Director Fran McCall previews the farm market season

April 23, 2018

Figure 1: Seed potatoes infected with blackleg may result in stunted plants. (Photo: John Hartman, UK)

POTATO DISEASE ...

Blackleg of potato

Disease can occur in both commercial and homegrown potatoes

April 22, 2018

Student volunteers remove calico scale from trees on campus. (Photo courtesy of the Urban Forest Initiative)

TREE HEALTH ...

The UK campus as a living laboratory

UK's Urban Forest Initiative finds non-native calico scale on campus trees

April 22, 2018

wheat

WHEAT SCHOOL ...

UK to host Wheat Field School April 26

School will cover issues prior to the crop flowering and post-harvest management decisions

April 22, 2018

Figure 1: Peach fruit infected with brown rot. (Photo: Nicole Ward Gauthier, UK)

BROWN ROT ...

Brown rot of peach fruit trees

Abundant rainfall and warm temperatures can lead to an increase in brown rot