Carter County
Newsletter
Cooperative
Extension Service
Carter County
94 Fairground Drive
Grayson, KY 41143
(606) 474-6686
Fax: (606) 474-8542
www.ca.uky.edu/ces
Upcoming Events
September 4-October 4
Tobacco Phase I Cost Share Program Application period at the Carter County
Extension Office
September 4
Horse College, #1 Nutrition for Your Horse, 6:00 p.m. at the Carter County
Extension Education Building
September 4
Little Sandy Beekeepers Club meeting, 6:00 p.m. at the Carter County Extension
Education Building
September 7
Last day to get free hay testing; call the extension office to schedule testing of
your hay
September 10
Customer Appreciation Pot Luck Luncheon from 1:00-3:00 p.m. at the Olive Hill
Farmers Market
September 10
Hog Finishing and Processing, 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the U.K. Robinson Center,
Jackson, KY
September 11
Horse College, #2 Facilities for Horses and Basic Horse Behavior, 6:00 p.m. in
the Carter County Extension Education Building
September 15
East KY Replacement Bred Heifer Sale, 1:00 p.m. at the Lee City Stockyards,
Lee City, KY
September 17-23
National Farm Safety Week
September 18
Horse College, #3 Forages: Including Hay and Pasture, 6:00 p.m. in the Carter
County Extension Education Building
September 22
Robinson Center for Appalachian Resource Sustainability (RCARS) Taste of the
Mountains Field Day, 10:00 a.m.- 4:00 p.m. at the U.K. Robinson Center,
Jackson, KY
September 25
Horse College, #4 Basic Health Care for Your Horse, 6:00 p.m. in the Carter
County Extension Education Building
Tobacco Phase One County Agricultural Investment Program
The Carter County Agricultural Advancement Council, Tobacco Phase I Cost-share Program
Application will be ready on September 4, 2012 in the new Carter County Extension Office, 94 Fairground
Drive, Grayson, KY. Appointments are available on Tuesday, September 9th in the Extension Office. If you
want to work with someone to complete the Application call 474-6686.
Sign-up period is September 4, 2012 – October 4, 2012. All applications must be turned in no later than
October 4, 2012. Again this year applicants are ranked on scoring criteria, NOT first come first serve. The
scoring criteria are designed to give the tobacco dependent farmer priority.
County Agricultural Investment Program, (CAIP)consists of a total of eleven investment areas: The
following have a limit of $4,000.00: Agricultural Diversification, Cattle Genetics, Cattle Handling, Farm
Fencing, Farm Structure & Commodity Handling, Farmland Improvement and On-Farm Water.
The following investment areas have a limit of $2000.00: Commercial Poultry, Dairy& Swine, Goat &
Sheep Diversification, On-Farm Energy Efficiency & Production, Technology & Leadership Development.
Participant may select no more than 3 investment areas. Total amount requested cannot exceed
$4000.00 total. All programs are 50% cost share on a reimbursement basis.
Horse College Scheduled
A Horse College has been scheduled for every Tuesday night in September.
The programs will begin at 6:00 p.m. each night. The first session on September 4th
will be held at the new Carter County Extension Office. The remaining 3 will be held
in the Carter County Extension Education Building.
The schedule and topics are:
September 4th – Nutrition for Your Horse
September 11th – Facilities for Horses and Basics of Horse Behavior
September 18th – Forages Including Hay and Pasture
September 25th – Basic Health Care for Your Horse
Everyone is welcome to attend. There is not any registration fee, but pre-registration is required so
we know how many to plan for. To preregister, please call the Carter County
Extension Office at 474-6686 by 4:30 p.m. on the Monday before the session.
Advanced Horse College
The Horse College will be flowed by an Advanced Horse College. The Advanced Horse College will be
held at 6:00 p.m. each Monday night in October in the Franks Building at the Boyd County Fairgrounds. The
schedule is:
Monday October 1st Body Condition Scoring how to and what it means (Coleman) live horses if possible
Monday October 8th Feeding Concerns for different situations (Coleman)
Monday October 15th Emergency Hoof Care (Kentucky Horseshoeing School)
Monday October 22nd Emergency First Aid what do you need and what to do till the vet arrives (Boyd Co Vet)
There is a $10 registration fee for the advance college. Please call the Carter County Office to preregister.
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16th Annual East Kentucky Hay Contest
Our 16th Annual East Kentucky Hay Contest will be held at the UK Robinson Center on Saturday,
September 22, 2012 during the noon meal at the RCARS field day. The deadline for
submitting hay and haylage samples for testing will be Friday, September 7. Forage
samples need to be delivered to the Robinson Center where the KDA will conduct the
testing on Monday, September 10. This event is open to all producers in District 1 &
2. If you plan to conduct a hay contest in your county as part of a county field day
or county fair, you can simply submit those KDA hay testing results to me for
competition. However, all hay and haylage samples must be collected by the ANR
agent with a hay probe.
Please give me a call ASAP to schedule a time to collect samples if you want to have your hay tested.
This is a free service for this event. You can have your hay tested free without entering the contest as well.
This is an excellent management tool and will help you plan your winter feeding program.
14th Annual East KY Bred Heifer Sale
The East Kentucky Beef Cattle Council will be sponsoring its’ fourteenth Replacement Bred Heifer Sale
on Saturday, September 15, 2012 at the Lee City Stockyard. The sale will begin at 1:00pm. Inspection will
begin at 12:00 noon. The Lee City Stockyard is located approx. 2 miles off the Mountain Parkway on Route 205
about 10 miles east of Campton in Wolfe County.
There will be approximately 150 bred heifers offered for sale. These heifers have been professionally
developed in cooperation of local County Agents and UK Beef Specialist. Each heifer has been vaccinated
against the respiratory disease complex (IBR, BVD, PI3, BRSV, and Hemophilus), the clostridial diseases
(Blackleg, etc.) and the reproductive diseases (lepto and vibrio). Each heifer has been treated for internal and
external parasites. Each heifer had to meet or exceed a pelvic area of 160 sq. cm. Pelvic Area was age adjusted
to one year of age on all heifers.
All heifers were tested and confirmed BVD persistent infection (PI) negative. All the heifers have been
checked by ultra-sound for intramuscular fat. This data will be provided on buyer request. The heifers were
artificially inseminated to the Select Sires bull Rito 6EM6. Black Angus clean-up bulls were used that met
Heifer CE requirements. 85 of the heifers in the sale are AI bred. There are 14 registered Black Angus in the
sale. Average weight was 900 on August 1, 2012. The majority of the heifers are Angus or Angus cross.
Most of the heifers will calve between early February and mid March.
All heifers are guaranteed bred for 60-days following the sale. There will be free delivery for purchases
of 10 or more up to a 200 mile radius of Lee City.
For more information about the sale or program you can contact Dr. Les Anderson at the University of
Kentucky Animal Science Department (859) 257-2856, Larry Clay (606) 438-9914 or Charles May (606) 4362044.
All the data on the heifers is posted on the Perry County web page. http://ces.ca.uky.edu/perry On the
left side of the page click on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
Farmers Market Customer Appreciation Day
The Olive Hill Farmers Market will celebrate their Customer Appreciation Day on September 10 from
1:00-3:00 p.m. with a free pot luck lunch. Be sure and visit the Olive Hill Farmers Market on the Save-A-Lot
supermarket parking lot for some good home cooking and fresh vegetables.
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Hog Finishing and Processing
Dr. Gregg Rentfrow – Speaker
Pig slaughter and curing are long standing traditions in the Appalachian region. Dr. Rentfrow will
discuss safety during slaughter along with demonstrating how to fabricate a pork carcass into wholesale
and retail cuts. In addition, he will be demonstrating how to dry cure the hams, shoulders, and bellies to
produce Country Hams, dry-cured shoulders, and Country Bacon. Finally, Dr. Rentfrow will talk about how to
grind and season the trimmings to produce breakfast sausage or bratwursts.
Kentucky Beef Cattle Market Update
Last week, USDA released their mid-year cattle inventory estimates and this month’s article will be
dedicated to discussing that report. The report was largely as expected, confirming large decreases in cattle
numbers since July of 2011. The only year-over-year increases in the report were in cattle on feed, which was
up by 1% from a year ago.
Total cattle and calves were down by about 2%, while beef cow numbers were down by about 3%.
Much of this is due to severe drought in major cattle producing areas in 2011 and continuing into 2012. While
state-by-state numbers are not available in the mid-year report, drought and competition for pasture and hay
ground would suggest that Kentucky beef cow numbers would be following a similar trend.
Heifer development got some attention following the January 2012 Cattle report as it showed a small
increase from January of 2011. However, that increase in beef heifer development was really pretty small when
compared to the decrease in beef cow numbers. The recent report, which is summarized in the table below,
shows heifers held for beef cow replacement steady from a year ago. Of course steady heifer development
numbers, coming off a year when beef cow inventory fell by 3%, suggests a continued decrease in cow
numbers.
Higher cattle-on-feed numbers and considerably lower beef cow numbers tend to suggest tighter feeder
cattle supplies down the road. This should be a positive factor for a feeder cattle market that is still trying to
gain some traction in what has been a brutal summer. The picture will become clearer as we gain a better
understanding of the size of the 2012 corn crop in the coming months and get a feel for the strength of beef
demand this fall.
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Burley Tobacco Curing Advisory Website
The University Of Kentucky College Of Agriculture has a new electronic, interactive tobacco curing
tool that may help burley tobacco growers better manage curing conditions in their barns. The web-based tool
was developed by retired Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering professors George Duncan and Linus
Walton, drawing on their wealth of expertise and experience curing burley tobacco, in collaboration with two
scientists from the University of Kentucky Agriculture Weather Center, agriculture meteorologist Tom Priddy
and information support technology specialist Wanhong Wang.
The curing advisory uses real-time data from the Kentucky Mesonet system, now in 62 counties
across the commonwealth, and from other sources, to produce a summary of average weather conditions
including temperature, relative humidity, and wind speed for the previous 48 hours, and forecasts the conditions
for the coming 24 hours. On the website, growers select their county from a pull-down menu, and the advisory
summarizes weather conditions for the specific location and advises opening or closing ventilators and, in
extreme conditions, adding supplemental ventilation or moisture.
The advisory only provides general guidance, and growers should use the recommendations in
combination with their own experience, and taking into consideration their own curing structures and situation.
Also, the guidance is primarily applicable during the first 5 to 6 weeks of air-curing mature tobacco that is
housed at proper spacing in traditional style barns with doors and ventilators that allow growers some measure
of control over curing conditions. But hopefully, this tool can be of assistance to many tobacco growers in
managing curing structures to produce the best quality tobacco under a wide range of curing conditions. To
access the interactive electronic burley curing advisory, go to weather.uky.edu/burley_curing.html, or find a
link to it on the UK Biosystems and Agricultural Engineering Department extension web page. Contact John
Wilhoit at jwilhoit@bae.uky.edu for more information.
Sincerely,
Myron Evans,
County Extension Agent for Ag/Natural Resources
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