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 Robinson
Station All Commodity Field Day is Sept. 28
By
Aimee Nielson
LEXINGTON, Ky., (Sept. 6, 2006) – The University of Kentucky
College of Agriculture will host the Robinson Station All
Commodity Field Day on Sept. 28 to highlight research and
programs of the region.
This year’s activities will begin with registration at 8:30 a.m.
There will be a variety of morning workshops on topics such as
managing sheep terrain, basic horse management, goat production,
year-round grazing in Kentucky, and fall farmers’ markets.
Registration for morning workshops is free unless participants
want to eat lunch, which costs $5.
Youth workshops, for grades seven through 12, will also be held
during the morning. Topics covered include an introduction to
GPS, golf course management, ATV safety, “Win with Wood,”
Robinson Scholars watershed project and “Growing Better
Popcorn.” Preregistration is required.
Demonstrations
are open for viewing throughout the day and include butter
churning, outdoor cooking, corn shuck flowers, tin can ice
cream, food preservation, porch weave foot stools, native animal
skins and more. Katie the Cow will also be on hand.
Afternoon activities, which are also free, begin at 2:30 p.m.
and include a Pride of Kentucky Quilts and Kitchen Show – “Then
and Now,” a quarter-scale tractor pull demonstration,
research/field equipment exhibit, a sweet sorghum stir-off and
FAMACHA training.
Afternoon tours will run from 3 to 6 p.m. Agronomy tours will
focus on fertilizer nitrogen options, a sweet sorghum variety
trial, a forage variety testing program, a seeded bermudagrass
variety trial and forage production for goats.
 Horticulture
tours will emphasize fall decorating with gourds, pumpkins and
ornamental corn, a staked tomato cultivar trial, a sweet potato
cultivar trial, cut and dried flowers, an herb garden,
high-tunnel tomato production and small fruits for Kentucky.
One forestry tour will include shitake mushrooms, using a
moulder to add value to wood products, growing black walnut
trees, chainsaw safety, carbon dioxide laser use in wood
products and a tour of the Wood Utilization Center. A second
forestry tour will be held at the Robinson Forest and will
include timber harvesting and stream protection, invasive
species threats to eastern Kentucky forests, Sudden Oak Death,
and the current status of outbreaks and research concerning the
hemlock wooly adelgid.
 This
year’s co-chairs for the event are Terry Jones and David Ditsch.
Sponsors of the field day are the UK College of Agriculture,
Cooperative Extension offices in Districts 1 and 2, Kentucky
Farm Bureau, the Barnhart Fund for Excellence, the Breathitt
County Conservation District, Southeastern Kentucky Agriculture
Development Council, Citizens Bank and Trust of Jackson and
First National Bank of Jackson.
Robinson Station is located on U.S. Highway 15, three miles
south of Jackson. For more information, contact your county
Extension office or Stephanie
Montgomery at 606-666-2438. |
Contact: Stephanie
Montgomery, 606-666-2438 |
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