Volume 1, Issue 1 Steve Musen

Jessamine County Extension Agent

Agriculture and Natural Resources

at 502-

Cooperative

Extension Service

Jessamine County

95 Park Drive

Nicholasville, KY 40356

(859) 885-4811

www.jessamine.ca.uky.edu

Inside this issue:

Upcoming Events

in Agriculture

2

Plate it up! Recipe—Fall

Harvest Salad

2

Do Your Horses

Have Enough

Hay For Winter?

3

Tree Wounds—

Invitations to

Wood Decay

4

Forage Timely

Tips

4

Agri-Business

Woman of the

Year

5

AGRICULTURE NEWS Jessamine County

Agriculture

November, 2019

This certification program is a combination of

the Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program and

the Cattle Handling and Care Certification pro-

gram. This training is required for CAIP Cost-

Share recipients who have been approved for a

Large Animal investment area project. Certifica-

tion is good for three years, so call the Exten-

sion Office to check on your status if you have

lost your certification card.

Upcoming Training Opportunity through the

Jessamine County Extension Office

Beef Quality and Care Assurance (BQCA) Certification Training

Jessamine County Extension Agriculture Center

Thursday, November 21st, 6:00pm

Dinner provided—Please call ahead to reserve a spot

(Meets CAIP Large Animal Investment Area Requirements)

Jessamine County Extension Offers Free

Soil Testing

The Jessamine County Extension Service’s Agriculture and Natural Resources

Program is now offering FREE SOIL TESTING starting on October 1st. This

offer is good for TWO free tests per household for residential soil tests and

up to SIX free tests for commercial enterprise per calendar year. Contact

the Jessamine County Extension Office for more information.

Nov 5-21 North American International

Livestock Exposition

KY Exposition Center, Louisville

http://www.livestockexpo.org/NAILE-Homepage.html Nov. 9 2019 NKY Equine Conference

Boone County Enrichment Center

(see flyer)

Nov 14 Jessamine County Goat Producers

6:30p @ Jessamine County Extension

Nov 18 Jessamine County Cattlemen Meeting

6:30p @ Jessamine County Extension

Nov 21 BQCA Certification Training

6:00p @ Jessamine County Extension

Nov 28-29 Office Closed for the Thanksgiving

Holiday

Dec 4 KY Farm Bureau Federation Annual

Meeting @ The Galt House, Louisville

Upcoming Events in Agriculture

Page 2 AGRICULTURE NEWS

Fall Harvest Salad

INGREDIENTS:

5 cups torn leaf lettuce

2 ½ cups spinach leaves

1 medium red apple, chopped

1 medium pear, chopped

4 teaspoons lemon juice

¼ cup dried cranberries

¼ cup feta cheese crumbles

½ cup chopped walnuts

Dressing:

2 ½ tablespoons olive oil

2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar

1 ½ teaspoons Dijon mustard

2 teaspoons Kentucky honey

½ teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS: Combine leaf lettuce and spinach leaves in a large salad bowl. Mix apples and pears with lemon

juice in a small bowl and add to lettuce mixture. Prepare dressing by whisking together the olive oil, balsamic vinegar, Dijon mustard, honey and

salt; pour over lettuce mixture and toss to coat.

Sprinkle salad with cranberries, feta cheese and walnuts. Serve immediately.

NUTRITIONAL ANALYSIS: 130 calories, 9 g fat, 1.5 g sat fat, 240 mg sodium, 12 g carbohydrates, 3 g fiber, 7 g sugar, 3 g

protein

YIELD: 8, 1 cup servings fall-harvest-salad-web-card.pdf

For more information on any of these programs, please contact the Jessamine County Extension Office

“With winter

just around

the corner,

and after a

hot and

extremely dry

fall, hopefully

horse owners

have secured

sufficient hay

supplies.”

Page 3 AGRICULTURE NEWS

Make Sure Your Horses Have Enough Hay For Winter

With winter just around the corner, and

after a hot and extremely dry fall, hope-

fully horse owners have secured sufficient

hay supplies. If you have not, you need to

estimate the amount of hay you will need.

If you have mature horses at maintenance

level, you would want to feed a mainly

forage diet.

The estimate would be similar to a 1,100-

pound horse eating 2% of its body weight.

That equals 22 pounds of hay per day.

Feeding for 120 days, December through

March, would equal 1.3 tons of hay per

horse.

You can make the most of your hay in-

ventory by first, having your hay tested.

The results will help you make the best

use of the nutrients supplied by the hay

and allows you to supplement as needed.

If you are unsure about how to get your

hay tested, you can contact your county

agriculture and natural resources exten-

sion agent for information or visit the

Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s

Forage Testing Program’s website at

https://www.kyagr.com/marketing/forage-

program.html.

Second, you should feed the amount your

horse needs per day. That essentially

means taking some control over the feed

intake. Feeding free choice can result in

your horses eating more than they need

each day to meet their nutritional needs.

This can be a difficult task for those who

are using hay rolls rather than square

bales.

Third, use a suitable feeder for your

horses to limit waste. Feeding on the

ground can result in significant feed loss-

es. Researchers using square bales, fed in

controlled amounts, reported waste in

the range of 20%, while others feeding

hay rolls without a feeder, reported

wastes of 35% to 38%. In that case, horse

owners would need at least a half ton

more hay per horse.

And finally, when you are buying hay, pur-

chase the best quality hay possible.

As the feeding season progresses, moni-

tor your horses to make sure they are

maintaining body condition and adjust

feed as needed. If you are short on hay,

you may need to feed some concentrate

to provide all the nutrients your horses

require.

If you estimate correctly, you should have

some hay left when spring grass finally

arrives. It is better to have some leftover

than to run out in March.

Source: Dr. Bob Coleman, U.K. Extension Equine Spe-

cialist

Page 4 Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 4 AGRICULTURE NEWS

“Wounds may

result from

numerous

sources such

as lawn

equipment,

pruning,

vehicles,

herbicides,

insects,

wildlife,

weather, or

objects that

girdle or

embed in

trunks”

Tree Wounds—Invitations to Wood Decay

Wood decay leads to loss of tree vigor

and vitality, resulting in decline, dieback,

and structural failure. Wounds play an

important part in this process since they

are the primary point of entry for wood

decay pathogens. While other factors

may also result in decline and dieback, the

presence of wounds and/or outward signs

of pathogens provides confirmation that

wood decay is an underlying problem.

Wounds and wood decay reduce the

ability of trees to support themselves.

Wounds may result from numerous

sources such as lawn equipment (Figure

1), pruning, vehicles, herbicides, insects,

wildlife, weather, or objects that girdle or

embed in trunks or branches. Once

stress or damage from wounds occurs,

fungal decay pathogens may enter plants

to cause further damage. During rainy

seasons and moderate temperatures,

many wood decay fungi produce visible

reproductive structures, such as shelf-like

fungal bodies or mushrooms.

For more information on tree wounds

and related disease problems, including

symptoms, causes, prevention, and

treatment, review the publication Tree

Wounds – Invitations to Wood Decay Fungi http://plantpathology.ca.uky.edu/files/ppfs-or-w-

01.pdf.

By: Dr. Kim Leonberger, U.K. Extension Associate,

Plant Pathology and Dr. Nicole Ward-Gauthier, U.K.

Extension Professor, Plant Pathology

Apply 30-40 lb N/A to strengthen cool-season grass sods through increasing

tillering and root growth

If not already done, inventory hay and assess hay quality.

Adjust animal numbers or purchase additional hay to balance forage-feed supply

to livestock needs.

Graze winter annuals that will not overwinter such as turnips and oats.

Graze other winter annuals once they are 6-8 inches tall and are well

anchored. Do NOT graze closer to 4 inches.

Sugar content will rise in tall fescue with the cool temperatures and short days of

fall. Alkaloid content of tall fescue can be high in some years, but will decline

after a hard freeze.

Talk with local conservationist about developing a grazing plan and cost-share

opportunities.

Forage Timely Tips: November

Lawn equipment damage to the base of a tree.

Photo: Cheryl Kaiser, University of Kentucky

“This award

recognizes an

agency or

Kentucky

Women In

Agriculture

member who

encompasses

creativity,

ingenuity, and

who is

community

oriented in

their

business.”

Page 5 AGRICULTURE NEWS

Kentucky Women in Agriculture Awards 2019 Honors

Babette Overman of Lancaster and Chair-

person of the Nicholasville Farmers Mar-

ket was the recipient of the 2019 Ken-

tucky Women in Agriculture “Agri-

Business Woman of the Year “” award at

the 20th annual conference held in Louis-

ville Kentucky on October 14-16, 2019.

This award recognizes an agency or Ken-

tucky Women In Agriculture member

who encompasses creativity, ingenuity,

and who is community oriented in their

business.

In receiving the award , Babette stated, “

To be recognized and honored for my

agri business is humbling . It has been said

that to be recognized for work well done

is an opportunity to do more work.

Those words are true and motivating .

For my husband and I to grow and pro-

vide the best and healthiest of Kentucky

produce and added value products is one

mission but inside of me is the passion

that the seeds that I sow each spring, the

summer of caring for and the bountiful

harvest that I tend to in the summer and

autumn , there lies my hopes, dreams,

and my future. Being the recipient of the

Kentucky Women in Agriculture's “Agri-

Business Woman of the Year” has hon-

ored my wish to make my tiny piece of

the gardening world a better place”.

Babette is a District 8 member, serving as

a KWIA Board member/Reporter and

was elected Vice President beginning in

January of 2020. and is the Maiden Ameri-

ca is a diversified company she has owned

for over 30 years and retirement years

found her as co – owner with her hus-

band of Overman's Bluegrass Fruits and

Vegetables, growing, processing and sell-

ing produce and a line of Kentucky Proud

added value products, throughout Ken-

tucky.

Kentucky Women in Agriculture is a di-

verse group of individuals with ties to the

agriculture industry in the Common-

wealth committed to empowering and

recognizing outstanding women across

the Bluegrass who impact the agriculture

industry, farming communities and strive

for a better quality of life.

Members include: Farm Owners/

Operators, Agribusiness Owners/

Operators, Agricultural Entrepreneurs,

State & Federal Personnel, Agriculture

educators and students and Consumers

The work of this organization's members

provide and promote educational oppor-

tunities that advance the interests and

welfare of its members. Serve and edu-

cate their members on policy, legislative

processes and issues that are of concern

to agriculture.

Throughout the Commonwealth , these

women serve as a liaison between their

members and entities interested in the

sustainability of agriculture and To pre-

pare our members for leadership roles in

agriculture at the county, state, and na-

tional levels.

Some Highlights from the 2019 Jessamine County Beef Cattle Association Trip

University of Georgia Tifton Campus

UGA Tifon Dairy Research Farm

Spirit of the Swamp Airboat in Kissimmee Florida

Deseret Cattle Ranch in St Cloud Florida

Walk on the beach in Melbourne Florida

Conference Program

8:00am-8:50am Registration & Visit Trade Show 8:50am-9:00am - Welcome

— General Session — 9:00am-10:10 am Federal and State Vehicle Regulations How they affect horse owners Sgt. J. Morris, KY State Police 10:10am-10:50am Indoor Arenas are more than walls & a roof practical considerations for an effective facility. Staci McGill, Master Student, University of Kentucky 10:50am-11:10am Morning Break & Visit Trade Show 11:10am-11:50pm Managing Water and Mud Issues Dr. Morgan Hayes, University of Kentucky 11:50am-12:50pm Lunch & Visit Trade Show 12:50 pm -1::30 pm Horses are Risky Business What to watch out for. Katy Ross, Executive Director, Kentucky Horse Council 1:30 –1:45 Afternoon Break & Visit Trade Show

— Afternoon Breakout Sessions — 1:45 pm to 3:15 pm

Session One Happy Barn, Happy Horses

Dr. Bob Coleman, University of Kentucky Stall Fans and Horses Staci McGill,

Master Student, University of Kentucky Ventilation in horse facilities, it is more than

just moving air. Dr. Morgan Hayes, University of Kentucky Session Two Using a Pre-purchase Exam Effectively Emma Adam DVM, University of Kentucky Getting Started – that first horse. Beth Powers

Past President Certified Horsemanship Assoc. Getting Started – lessons that are safe,

effective and fun. Tammi Gainer President Certified Horsemanship Assoc.

3:15 - 3:30 Conference Survey and Closing Comments

Boone County Enrichment Center

1824 Patrick Drive, Burlington , KY

Registration includes:

Program

Lunch

Trade Show

For more information or

questions about this conference,

call or e-mail Don Sorrell

(859) 572-2600 | dsorrell@uky.edu

Saturday, November 9, 2019

2019 Northern Kentucky

Equine Conference

Jessamine Co

95 Park Dr

Nicholasville KY 40356

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