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Impact Report
| For plan | Agronomic Crop and Improved Pasture System Development (Roosevelt County) |
| Date | October 28, 2010, 10:16 pm |
| For Objective | Short-term Show short-term objectives |
| Impact Report | This agent has fielded and referred numerous questions throughout the year regarding an array of field crops. Part of this job is to provide resources and access to information not readily available to producers. 100% of the producers serviced this year found answers to their production questions which allowed them to make better management decisions. Questions were answered on wheat marketing and production, canola production and harvesting issues, and high moisture corn production. An effective agent doesn’t have to know everything but they have to be able to access a wide array of information from multiple sources. Pesticides are an important piece of the management tools available to row crop producers, but in order to use them they must have a private applicator’s license. One component of keeping that license is to further their education of proper pesticide use and management. This agent in conjunction with the Curry County Agent and the Bailey County IPM agent hosted a class for those producers that had not received enough credits to renew their license. Fifty-seven producers from two states attended the training meeting and completed their continuing education units and renewed their licenses. Because of their attendance at this class, those who completed their training were better prepared to manage their farming practices and gained knowledge that would improve their business. Now in its third year this agent has collected rainfall amounts and forage production data for the entire county. This agent was asked in 2008 by the Farm Service Agency (FSA) County Committee to assist the Natural Resource Conservation Service in developing a better means of assessing the health of Roosevelt County grazing lands. Eight rainfall and forage production sites were set out across the county to measure precipitation and forage yield. These samples are also analyzed to determine nutrient content and that data passed along to producers in order to make better management decisions. This data will be used by the FSA County Committee to assist producers with grazing losses occurred during a given year. This agent feels this opportunity will greatly benefit county clientele by establishing production data that can be measured and compared from year to year and location to location and establish a useful database for future use. Loss of production can then be evaluated by the County Committee to determine if compensation is justifiable for producers. |