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For your specific area, why not check with the people that get paid to provide information/help for your area? Try NRCS or your local extension office!

dun
 
dun":hb254s1z said:
For your specific area, why not check with the people that get paid to provide information/help for your area? Try NRCS or your local extension office!

dun

I don't know anything about Kansas. Around here they have cut back on Extension personnel so much and existing offices have been refocused on kids, home economics, hobbys, the environment, etc that we have to either track down a beef specialist (who probably handles about 10 counties) or just call Auburn's College of Agriculture or the Vet School too find somebody who knows more about a production matter than you or I do.
 
Brandonm2":2nn1w5ce said:
dun":2nn1w5ce said:
For your specific area, why not check with the people that get paid to provide information/help for your area? Try NRCS or your local extension office!

dun

I don't know anything about Kansas. Around here they have cut back on Extension personnel so much and existing offices have been refocused on kids, home economics, hobbys, the environment, etc that we have to either track down a beef specialist (who probably handles about 10 counties) or just call Auburn's College of Agriculture or the Vet School too find somebody who knows more about a production matter than you or I do.

Amen. If you're not raising goats, hair sheep or some kind of organic vegetables around here they don't want to talk to you. The ext agent stopped by my place a few years back, first words out of his mouth as he stepped out the truck: "With all the development around you, you're setting on a gold mine here." That kind of set the mood from there on out.

cfpinz
 
EIEIO and I discussed this same thing earlier this week. He and I must live in a different world then most of you. The extension guys are really helpful and one works with the producers in the cattle marketing deal. The NRCS folks are top drawer and understand what is important in this area.
The local extension guy is hard to get a hold of sometimes, but the NRCS people, there's an office full of them, are easy to get ahold of even though they're servicing many square miles in multiple countys. I guess this part of MO just takes agriculture more seriously then some other parts of the country

dun
 
Our people are pretty good at what they do.....there just aren't many of them any more.

At our county office, the "county agent"'s specialities are 'community resource development, family and child development, and human nutrition'.

The girl underneath her's specialty is 'Expanded Food and Nutrition Education program'. And THANKFULLY we have recently gotten a girl too run '4H and Youth Developmental goals'. Before filling that position that responsibility fell too a guy in the Cullman county office (86 miles away and NO interstate) who still oversees 4H activities here.
We also have an agronomist who oversees crops for the multi-county region headquartered here.

All Animal science and forage science questions are run by a guy in Bibb county (81 miles away....again all country roads). No disrespect too him; but since I have too phone long distance anyway I just call the two beef cattle specialists I do know well, even though technically I am not in their regions.
 

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