Farm and Family

There is a lot going on in 4-H Clubs across the county.  If you are looking for something new to try I would like to encourage you to check out the clubs listed below and see if there is something that piques your interest.  4-H is learning at its best, you come because you’re interested and learn skills you can use throughout your life.  Don’t miss out.  Call us at 845-2811 or visit us on the web for more details www.henrycounty4h.com

Because of buyer/manufacturer concerns, an annual training for tobacco producers called Tobacco GAP Certification was made mandatory a couple of years ago.  
GAP stands for Good Agricultural Practices, and the trainings include information on Tobacco Production, Environmental Stewardship and Labor Management/ Worker Safety.   
UK Extension Agronomist Dr. Bob Pearce spearheads the Kentucky Tobacco GAP Training efforts, in cooperation with a new organization known as “GAP Connections.”   

We all want a good night’s sleep, but for some of us, sleep is hard to come by.
If you experience trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, awakening too early or never feeling rested, you are not alone.
Many adults experience sleep disturbances at some point. The National Institutes of Health estimates that nearly 30 percent of the general adult population complains of sleep disruption, and about 10 percent has functional impairment in the daytime that is a telltale sign of insomnia.

Retail food prices across the Commonwealth continued their year-long pattern of growth in the fourth quarter of 2014 according to the Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) Federation’s latest Marketbasket Survey. The December 2014 survey results identified the total cost of 40 basic grocery items as $129.14, or 1.7 percent higher than the previous quarter. This is the seventh consecutive quarter that the Marketbasket Survey total resulted in an increase and is also a new all-time high.