Save the Date! Cooking with Beef. Bourbon County Cooperative Extension Service. March March 26th at 6:00 PM

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1 Bourbon County Cooperative Extension Service A GRICULTURE & N A TURAL R ESOUR CES N E WSLETTER Save the Date! March 2018 Ray Tackett Agent for Horticulture March 8th March 10th March 12th March 16th March 19th March 26th March 29th March 22nd April 3rd April 3rd April 25th Novel Tall Fescue Renovation Workshop; Lexington Fayette Co. Farm Bureau Farm Equipment Auction Beef Cattle Mineral Line-Up; Harrison Co. Ext. Office Grain Meeting; Scott Co. Ext. Office Tobacco GAP; Harrison Co. Ext. Office KY Beef Council; Cooking with Beef Farm Succession Planning; Scott Co. Ext. Office The 4 s of Crossbreeding; Webinar Hemp Meeting; Fayette Co. Ext. Office Cattle Traceability Study Overview; Webinar Seedstock Cattle Symposium; Shelby Co. Ext. Office 8:30-5:00PM 8:30 AM 7:00 PM 10:00-3:00 PM 6:00 PM 6:00 PM 6:00 PM 7:00 PM 8:30-3:30 PM 7:00 PM 9:00 AM Cooking with Beef March 26th at 6:00 PM Kay Denniston Agent for Family & Consumer Sciences Lois Carter Agent for 4H Youth Development Bourbon County Extension Service 603 Millersburg Road Paris, KY Office: (859) Toll Free: Fax: (859) Katelyn Hawkins from the KY Beef Council will join us at the Bourbon County Extension Office to share the following: *Judging quality when purchasing cuts of beef *Best Preparation methods of cuts of beef *Food safety considerations *Including lead beef as part of a healthy diet Class attendance will count as an Educational Requirement for the CAIP Program! Please call to register! 1

2 Cost Share Program Update The Cost Share application deadline has now passed for the 2017 application period. Phase I Cost Share applications have been scored and letters have been mailed. Projects completed after May 1 st 2017 will qualify if you are approved for funding. Updates will appear in this portion of the newsletter as well as the newspapers. Please keep the following important information in mind as you begin cost share projects. Changes may have occurred since you last applied and received funds. If you have questions about projects, it is always best to ask! Reminders for turning in completed projects: MUST BE COMPLETE & TURNED IN BY MAY 1st 2018 NO CASH PURCHASES No reimbursements for purchases from or payments to immediate family members No purchase of transport equipment (trailers, wagons, carts) No purchase of fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide, and soil amendments. Lime is covered. Reimbursements for rental of spray equipment, safety switches & rollover bars have been added. Certification for Educational Requirement (Purple Form) is required. You must attend at least one educational session and provide the signed form for reimbursement. *If you go to another county extension office to complete your educational portion of your CAIP application, you must get that agent s signature. Only one individual per household is eligible to receive CAIP funds within a program year. If applicable, proof of residency may be requested to verify that multiple individuals within the same household are not applying. Tenant farmers are required to obtain written permission from the landowner to use the landowner s FSN on a CAIP application. For funding, a producer must submit all paperwork: Producer Report, Educational Certification, cancelled checks, receipts, pictures and any additional documentation required Beef Quality Assurance Certification (BQA) is required for ANY purchases made in the Large Animal category. TOBACCO GAP MEETING Harrison County Extension Office Monday, March 19 th at 6:00 PM Please be sure to bring your GAP card and drivers license with you. A GAP card is required to sell tobacco with tobacco companies. A producer will not be allowed to have multiple cards, so please keep that in mind when planning who will be attending this meeting. There will be a meal served, call the Harrison County Extension Office at to register. Free Dead Animal Removal

3 Beef Cattle Mineral Line-Up Monday March 12 th at 7:00 PM Harrison County Extension Office Guest Speakers: Thomas Carper, Multi-Min representative, and a representative from Purina Hosted by the Harrison County Beef Cattle Association and Young Farmers Association Southern States, Purina and Multi-Min will be sponsoring a meal. Please call the Harrison County Extension Office to register at Benefits to Grazing Novel Endophyte Tall Fescue Source: Jimmy Henning, extension forage specialist Spring is a time of renewal and rejuvenation, and pastures are no exception. If you plan to renovate a field this year, consider replacing your existing stand with a novel endophyte tall fescue variety. Novel endophyte tall fescue varieties have been on the market for about 20 years. Recently, the University of Kentucky released a novel endophyte tall fescue variety, Lacefield MaxQ II. It was available to producers in 2017 and is expected to be more widely available this fall. Novel endophyte tall fescue varieties do not produce the ergot alkaloids that can cause fescue toxicosis, a disease that primarily affects cattle but can also negatively impact pregnant mares and milk producing goats. They also retain some of the positives of KY-31 tall fescue including the ability to survive drought, cold, overgrazing, insects and diseases. In fact, UK has some Lacefield MaxQ II research plots more than 10 years old that still are in good shape. Cattle producers that replace KY-31 tall fescue pastures with a novel variety consistently have higher conception rates and higher average daily gains. A UK summary of numerous studies found that cattle fed a novel endophyte tall fescue variety gained 0.75 extra pounds per day on stockers during the first half of the grazing season. Conception and weaning weights were also higher. The UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment is hosting a Novel Tall Fescue Workshop March 8 in Lexington that will cover all aspects of establishment and management of novel endophyte tall fescue varieties. For more information or to register visit or contact the Bourbon County Cooperative Extension Service. Educational programs of the Cooperative Extension Service serve all people regardless of economic or social status and will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, creed, religion, political belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expressions, pregnancy, marital status, genetic information, age, veteran status, or physical or mental disability. - 3

4 National Cattlemen s Beef Association Webinar Series March 22 nd 7:00 PM The 4 S s of Crossbreeding: Simple, Structured, Successful and Sustainable April 3 rd 7:00 PM Cattle Traceability Study Overview To register: 4

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