Farming

USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) State Executive Director John W. McCauley, announces that funds are now available for Guaranteed Conservation Loans.
“Guaranteed Conservation Loans are a useful alternative to help operators implement any Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) approved conservation practice including, but not limited to, waste management systems, conservation structures or water conservation measures,” said McCauley.

USDA Farm Service Agency (FSA) Kentucky State Executive Director John W. McCauley, reminds producers that crop reporting deadlines for fall barley, fall wheat, other fall-seeded small grains and peaches have changed for the 2013 crop year. The new deadlines are:
• Dec. 15, 2012 - Fall Barley, Fall Wheat, and all other Fall-Seeded Small Grains; and
• Jan. 15, 2013 – Peaches.

This time of the year we usually start to think about cleaning off the front porch, emptying containers of declining summer annuals and replacing them with something a little showy for the fall.  
We hope that the old standby of mums will persist through the onset of winter, but that depends on the weather and the shape the mums were in when we purchased them. I have seen some that still look largely intact and others that are ready to be pulled.

The Harrison County Extension Office will conduct a grain program on Tuesday, Nov. 27 from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the Harrison County Extension Office and will consist of everything from fertility to plant population. A special segment will deal with crop insurance for 2013.
Dr. Chad Lee, Grain Specialist at the University of Kentucky, has put the program together and we will be receiving the program via computer feed from Lexington.  Several counties will be participating in the program and each will have an opportunity to ask questions as they come up.