August Clinton County Extension Ag Programs

I have three programs in the first half of August I'll provide a quick post about with a link to the flyers, for the first two anyway. I'll be making longer posts on these in the near future, either during a slow moment during the fair or afterwards.

Farm Drainage Program
On Thursday, August 8 we'll be having a Farm Drainage program, officially titled, Farm Drainage for the Environment and for Profit. We have some great speakers lined up for this program, which will run from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. The program is sponsored by the Clinton County Farm Bureau, Clinton County Soil and Water Conservation District and of course the Clinton County Extension Service. There is no cost to attend and lunch will be provided. Because we're serving a meal I need to have pre-registrations in by August 1. This program has been approved for Private Pesticide Recertification (PARP) credit. The following link is to the program flyer which includes additional information:

Farm Drainage for the Environment and for Profit

I will be sending letters out to all Private Applicators who need classes for recertification before their license expires.

Locally Grown Foods Tour
We're offering an exciting new program on Saturday, August 10. This will be the first Clinton County Locally Grown Foods Tour. During the day we will be visiting four sites in Clinton County which grow, raise and sell food products for the public. We have some pretty good variety with producers of produce, honey, meat products including pastured pork, and poultry and eggs. I will have much more information on this and am planning to put a website together in the near future. You can either participate in this by riding a bus through the day or driving yourself to as many sites as you like. Registration is $10 if you will be eating lunch and $20 if you will be eating lunch and riding the bus. A link to the program flyer which includes additional information is here:

Locally Grown Foods Tour

I should mention that two of the tour host sites have their own web sites, This Old Farm and The Farming Engineers.

Adult PQA Plus
The final program will be an Adult PQA Plus program on Tuesday, July 13 at 6:30 p.m. at the Extension Office, 1111 South Jackson Street in Frankfort. I will be offering both PQA Plus and Site Self-Assessment Training. There's no cost for this program. Some of you may have heard of changes to the PQA Plus program which includes a "test-out" opportunity. This is true but they've also revised the curriculum so you're only eligible for the online testing option once you've taken the new course in person.

I'll have more information on the first two of these in the near future. Don't forget that the Clinton County and 4-H Fair will be held July 14-20.