ebruary was a month of program implementation. Recently, I have hosted two of five youth wildlife program meetings. This month’s topics included emphasis on Kansas mammals and reptiles.
Vickie Cikanek and Logan Martin, both with Kansas Wildlife Parks and Tourism, presented lessons and brought a variety of visuals. With this program, we also have some youth who are interested in participating in a Wildlife Habitat Education Program (WHEP) contest that is hosted around the state annually by the wildlife specialists for K-State Research and Extension. This year’s contest location will be in Manhattan in May. I have been working with those youth to help prepare them for the contest.
Another program that I have implemented was an informational meeting on industrial hemp. This meeting drew a crowd of nearly 100 area producers. There are still many questions and concerns about growing this crop, so the crowd was anxious to get many of these questions answered. Dana Ladner with the Kansas Department of Agriculture spoke on the regulatory side of this venture, and Jason Griffin with K-State Research and Extension spoke on the growing and research implementation portion of the enterprise. This was a great meeting to showcase the timeliness and programming value that K-State Research and Extension has to offer in our local communities.
Also, this month we hosted the hazardous occupation (tractor safety) training to area youth. James Coover and I presented an all-day training that focused on how to stay safe on a farm and while operating farm equipment. We used the classroom and shop at the Labette County High School Agriculture Department.
My husband, Keith, who is a welding instructor at the high school, was also able to come for the afternoon portion of the training to demonstrate areas of caution around a tractor that is owned by the school. This is a valuable training to our area youth who hope to work on and around farms.
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