Agriculture

Plan now to attend the Diabetes Education Day from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday, April 21, at the Warrior Activity Center located at 297 West Broadway in Eminence. You can attend sessions all day or part of the day!  And you will come away discovering self-management tips to decrease the complications of diabetes.

The Cooperative Extension Service is finalizing plans to hold a forage based beef finishing workshop at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, May 1, at the Shelby County Extension Office.  The information packed session will include lunch. Please hold the entire day for the session.

With more and more emphasis on locally grown food in our region, it fits that locally finished beef demand will increase.  This workshop focuses on type and breeds of beef, forage quality and animal nutrition, age of animal, taste, marketing strategies, and many other factors.

After an extremely warm winter, many forage grasses and small grains used for forages are quickly nearing the stages where they need to be cut to maintain optimum feed quality, according to Ray Smith, extension forage specialist in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture. Depending on the area of the state, the forages are two to three weeks ahead of schedule.

Do you have memories that you want to share with family and friends but don’t know how?  Do you want to preserve your stories or the stories of someone you love?   Are you interested in keeping your memory active?  If you answer yes to these questions, then the research study on memory banking could be for you!