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Agriculture

  • WICHE: Sawflies strip dogwood foliage

    One of the very first insects that I identified as a young gardener was the pine sawfly. We had planted more than 100 white pine seedlings some 30 years ago, and after a decade or so we started to lose a couple each year to one problem or another. Daddy charged me with inspection duty: looking for and plucking bagworms; collecting beetles in jars for identification at the county extension service; or closely noting the color, legs and chewing habits of the various caterpillars I encountered.

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  • Kentucky State Fair: Champion goats rebound to show at fair

    A family that endured an horrific loss to their prize-winning goat herd in a barn fire this past March is preparing to take the survivors to the Kentucky State Fair.

    Howard and Joann Shelburne of Simpsonville, who lost 30 prize-winning Alpine Dairy goats – half their herd – have been showing goats for 45 years.

    The Shelburnes were devastated after the fire, as most of the goats that died were prize-winners, earning nearly 70 ribbons at last year’s state fair.

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  • Ag report: Aug. 9, 2013

    Shelby County Farmers’ Market adds Wednesday afternoon hours

    New this week at the Shelby County Farmers’ Market will be a mid-week market held every Wednesday, from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. This new market day, which began Wednesday, is in addition to the Saturday market, held from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday through October in the Coots Barn at the Shelby County Fairgrounds, 1513 Midland Trail in Shelbyville.

    For more information, visit shelbycokyfarmersmarket.com.

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  • Business Q&A: Bobby Foree

    Bobby Foree is a seventh-generation family farmer and a lawyer who owns land in Shelby County and lives in Henry County. He graduated from the University of Kentucky with a bachelor’s degree in animal science and earned a master’s degree in agriculture education. He also earned a law degree from UK. He farms beef cattle. His wife is the former Jean Kaye LeCompte of Shelby County. They have two children. He spoke with Brad Bowman of Landmark News Service.

     

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  • WICHE: Bagworms are on the move

    Who among us is guilty of not noticing something until it’s too late? Yes, all of a sudden there is nothing left of your blue spruce or arborvitae. Bagworms have been munching on the needles for weeks, and we wonder how it all happened.

    Well, they are at work right now so go outside and take inventory of your evergreens because that’s what the bagworm likes the most. Now is the time they do their damage unless we put a stop to it.

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  • Ag report: Aug. 2, 2013

    Shelby teams dominate 4-H team judging events

    For the fourth consecutive year, the Shelby County 4-H Livestock Judging Team has won the Stoeppell Award for High County Team Overall for earning the most total points in each of the three age divisions, clover, intermediate and senior. 

    The teams are coached by Corinne Belton, Adam Miller and James Riddell.

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  • WICHE: Fireflies light the night for love

    Likely as a child, you too, collected fireflies in a jar and took them to bed to light up your room on a warm summer night. I remember getting my parents to puncture the lid of a mason jar, so the magical insects could breathe.

    Well, it turns out that all that light flashing wasn’t meant for our entertainment but rather about entertaining love.

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  • Ag report: July 26, 2013

    Annual grasslands event this week at Oldham farm

    The 2013 Kentucky Forage and Grasslands Field Day will be held in neighboring Oldham County at Rivercrest Farm at  3 p.m. Thursday. Rivercrest Farm is located at 1904 Mayo Lane in Prospect.

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  • WICHE: Harvesting and curing root crops

    Potatoes, garlic and onions: These tree vegetables are staples worldwide largely because of their versatility and their storage-ability.

    Late July and August is when our spring planted onions, garlic and potatoes reach maturity and are ready for harvest. If you want to harvest some new potatoes, onions or garlic before they reach maturity, enjoy them at the table in short order.

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  • Farm bill amendment will allow hemp research

    Agriculture officials say they are pleased with newly passed legislation that will allow colleges and universities to grow hemp for research purposes in states where hemp production is allowed by state law.

    The measure was an amendment to the farm bill that passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday.

    U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Vanceburg) was one of three co-sponsors of the amendment and has filed a bill that would remove hemp from the federal definition of marijuana.

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