Assessing and Utilizing UK Extension Resources

Commercial Fruit Production

College of Agriculture publications website

                http://www2.ca.uky.edu/agcomm/pubs.asp

Departmental sites (publications, fact sheets, videos)

                Ag Economics www.uky.edu/Ag/AgEcon/extension.php

                Biosystems Engineering (Ag Weather) http://weather.uky.edu

                Center for Crop Diversification http://www.uky.edu/ccd/                             

Entomology https://entomology.ca.uky.edu/entfacts/

                Horticulture www.uky.edu/hort/documents-list-commercial-fruit-nut

                Forestry http://forestry.ca.uky.edu/wildlife

                Plant Pathology http://plantpathology.ca.uky.edu/extension/publications

                Plant and Soil Sciences https://pss.ca.uky.edu/extension15

Newsletters

                Fruit Facts http://www.uky.edu/hort/documents-list-fruit-facts

                KY Pest News https://kentuckypestnews.wordpress.com/

Email Alerts (listserv)

                Contact Chris Smigel csmigell@uky.edu

                 Separate list servs for apple, peach, grape, blueberry, strawberry, brambles

Apps and Models

                Ag Models (Ag Weather) http://weather.uky.edu/ky/agmodels.php

                Disease and Insect Models (mobile version) http://weather.uky.edu/dim.html    

                Scouting Guides (mobile version) http://applescout.ca.uky.edu/ and                                                             

                                https://strawberryscout.ca.uky.edu/

Social Media

Facebook

                Ag Weather  https://www.facebook.com/ukagweather/

                Diseases of Ornamentals, Fruit, and Hemp https://www.facebook.com/KYPlantDisease/

                Spotted Wind Drosophila in KY  https://www.facebook.com/SWDinKY/

                UK REC Hort https://www.facebook.com/Ukrec-Hort-Group-122095484516798/

                UK Robinson Center  https://www.facebook.com/ukrobinsoncenter/

                University of Kentucky Ag Programs  https://www.facebook.com/UKANR/

                Center for Crop Diversification  https://www.facebook.com/CenterforCropDiversification/

Twitter

                UK Extension @UKExtension

                UK Ag Weather Center @UKAGweather

                Ky-Bugs @KyBugs

                Southern IPM Center @southernipm

                Nicole Ward Gauthier @Nicole_WardUK

               

Lab Services

                Plant Disease Diagnostic Laboratory (free) submit samples through county extension office

                Soil Testing (fees vary) submit through county extension office.  http://soils.rs.uky.edu/

                Food Systems http://www.uky.edu/fsic/services.php

               

County Agents

                UK Extension Service http://extension.ca.uky.edu/county 

Weather Review from UK Ag Weather Center

Compliments of Tom Priddy, UK Agricultural Weather Center:

Review of the year's Weather across Kentucky provided by NWS Weather Offices:

West KY:  "http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=pah&storyid=77120&source=0"

Central KY: "http://www.crh.noaa.gov/images/lmk/2011weather/2011reviewfinalfinal.pdf"

East KY:  "http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=jkl&storyid=76991&source=0"

Take some time to check out their website, also.  There's a wealth of weather-related information for growers across the region.  http://wwwagwx.ca.uky.edu/