NATIONAL Sept. 7-9: The Wisconsin Sheep & Wool Festival will feature fiber arts classes, stock dog trial, a country store, Border collie demonstrations and “Sheep 101”, sheep & fleece shows at Jefferson Fair Park, Jefferson, Wis. For details, visit www.wisconsinsheepandwoolfestival.com
ILLINOIS Sept. 10: The Illinois Organic Growers Assoc. and University of Illinois Extension are offering an urban agriculture tour, Farm to Table from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Goodness Greeness in Chicago, Ill., a company that directly supplies organic produce to over 300 stores, including the region’s largest supermarkets and independent retailers. Register at http://farmtotablegoodness greenessuncommonground.eventbrite.com
Sept. 27: The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture and the Kentucky Cattlemen’s Assoc. will host Beef Bash 2012, a unique field day for Kentucky beef cattle producers at the UK Research and Education Center in Princeton, Ky. For more information contact Roy Burris at 270-365-7541 ext 208, e-mail rburris@uky.edu or visit http://ces.ca.uky.edu/beefirm/bash/
INDIANA Sept. 3: The Michiana Farm Toy Collector’s Club is sponsoring its 25th annual Labor Day Toy Show at the Elkhart County 4-H Fairgrounds in Goshen, Ind. For more information, contact Ken Miller at 574-537-9500 or 574-831-3484.
Sept. 5: Landowners who want to diversify their acreage to preserve the family farm, earn extra income or conserve their land can attend a Purdue Extension Natural Resource Enterprises workshop at the Indiana Farm Bureau Building, 225 S. East St., Indianapolis, Ind. Contact Brian MacGowan at macgowan@purdue.edu
Sept. 6: Landowners who want to diversify their acreage to preserve the family farm, earn extra income or conserve their land can attend a Purdue Extension Natural Resource Enterprises workshop at Blue River Valley Farm, 10351 E. Daugherty Lane, Milltown, Ind. Contact Brian MacGowan at macgowan@purdue.edu
Sept. 6: A Purdue Extension workshop will focus largely on helping forage and livestock producers manage the 2012 drought at the Purdue Agronomy Center for Research and Education in West Lafayette, Ind. Registration is $110 per person. More information and registration materials are available at https://ag.purdue.edu/agry/dtc/Pages/September62012.aspx
OHIO Sept. 5: Pumpkin Field Day, to be held from 6-8 p.m. at Ohio State University’s Western Agricultural Research Station in South Charleston, Ohio. Cost is $5 per person. Both CCA (certified crop advisor) and PAT (pesticide applicator training) credits will be available. Contact jasinski.4@osu.edu, 937-484-1526 or 937-462-8016.
KENTUCKY Sept. 11-12: The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture will host the Kentucky Grazing School at the Woodford County extension office in Versailles, Ky. Applications are available online at www2.ca.uky.edu/grazer or through the local office of the UK Cooperative Extension Service.
Sept. 14: Connecting Farm$ to Local Market$ National Corvette Museum, Bowling Green, Ky. (8:45 a.m. – 3 p.m. CDT). This event is a networking opportunity designed to introduce Kentucky producers to wholesale and retail markets. For more information, visit http://ces.ca.uky.edu/Warren/farmdol lars or contact Janet Johnson at 270-237-3146 or jjohnson@uky.edu.
TENNESSEE Sept. 5: The annual Cotton Tour Field Day will return to the West Tennessee AgResearch and Education Center in Jackson, Tenn. A schedule will be posted soon at http://west.tennessee.edu/ events
Editor’s Note: Coming Events is a free listing. The material presented is a cross-section of activities about which we know. Placement in Coming Events is on a space available basis and is up to the discretion of the Farm World staff. |
