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Morehead Homemakers exchange items with group from Alaska
More than 4,100 miles separate Morehead from Seward, Alaska, but the distance between the two seems a little shorter these days thanks to an exchange between Morehead's Town and Country Homemaker Club and the Marathon Homemakers in Seward.
The exchange stemmed from the "North to Alaska" theme of the annual Rowan County Homemaker meeting. Betty Sharp, who was then vice president of the Town and County Homemakers, began contacting different locations in Alaska trying to get items for meeting favors. When she called the Seward Chamber of Commerce, someone at the office knew a homemaker in the Marathon Homemakers and connected the two.
"It's so neat that they ended up in touch with an Alaskan Homemaker Club, and hopefully, they can continue to be in contact," said Martha Perkins, Rowan County family and consumer sciences agent with the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service.
The Alaskan Homemakers sent many items from "The Last Frontier" state including handmade crafts, souvenirs, scrapbook, pens, pot holders, fabric, maps, jewelry and a picture of their club members wearing homemade knitted caps.
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New research program to develop markets for catastrophic weather risk in developing countries
A new program is under way to support the development and pilot testing of effective and affordable index-based weather insurance products for markets that serve small farmers. GlobalAgRisk Inc. of Lexington launched the program, working in arrangement with the University of Kentucky. The program involves two major activities: in-country work in Peru to develop index insurance against extreme El Niño, which...
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Pillowcase Project offers comfort to sheltered children
When children arrive with their mothers at a Women's Crisis Center shelter, they often have nothing more than the clothes on their backs.
"A lot of times when children come to the shelter they are afraid, they are scared, they have left their home, they have left their school and they have seen violence in their homes," said Maureen Rich, public education coordinator of the Women's Crisis Centers...
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Emerald ash borer quarantine specifics addressed
Recently, the Kentucky Office of the State Entomologist, in consultation with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, issued a quarantine for 20 counties due to the emerald ash borer. Since the quarantine was issued, questions have arisen about the emerald ash borer, including controlling its spread and effects on ash trees.
The emerald ash borer attacks ash trees. Within several years, it can kill a tree. Thus far, the emerald ash borer has been collected at sites in seven Kentucky counties: Fayette, Franklin, Jessamine...
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Sunny Acres Farm hosts soggy Funfest for rural and urban guests
More than 200 people braved soggy, muddy conditions to learn about agriculture at Sunny Acres Farm in Louisville. The biennial "Crossroads: Farm-City Funfest" went on despite torrential downpours at times. The weather didn't distract volunteers and vendors from their purpose, however - to show rural and urban folks alike what's happening...
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Collins receives distinguished lifetime achievement award
Glenn Collins, a professor and researcher in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, received the Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for In Vitro Biology during the opening ceremony of the 2009 In Vitro Biology Meeting in Charleston, S.C.
"It was quite a surprise and an honor to be recognized for a lifetime of research after working...
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From Growing Kentucky
UK ON MAIN
University of Kentucky has a greater presence in Louisville now with a Main Street office.play
MEAT CUTTING SCHOOL
There is a trend toward restaurant chefs buying whole animal carcasses and doing their own meat cutting, that's why chefs and meat producers attended a workshop on the University of Kentucky campus.play
4-H AEROSPACE PROGRAM
4-H agents and teachers returned to the Moon as part of an in-service training at the Challenger Learning Center in Paducah. They were there to learn more about the 4-H Aerospace Program by using teamwork and problem solving skills.play
Radio News
Watching for Timber Theft
Timber theft is a common crime committed in Kentucky. Extension Forestry Specialist, Jeff Stringer, outlines how to prevent these occurrences.play (.mp3)
Summarizing Research on Corn Fungicides
Much research is being done on corn fungicides. Paul Vincelli, Extension Disease and Turfgrass Specialist, elaborates on University of Kentucky corn fungicide focal research areas.
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Recommending Secondary Nutrients for Soil
There are a lot of nutrients needed for high soil and crop quality. Extension Director of Soil Testing Frank Sikora details secondary nutrients requirements as recommended by the University of Kentucky.
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