|
|
|
|
|
Programs - Agriculture and Natural Resources
Listed below are programs offered through the
Sequatchie County Extension. For more detailed information
about the program contact the person listed with the program or the
Sequatchie County Extension. |
| > |
Pesticide Applicator Trainings
Contact: Sheldon D. Barker
Training to use Restricited Use Pesticides
|
| > |
Farm Management
Contact: Sheldon D. Barker
Improve production by improving management practices. Be more efficient in use of labor, equipment, land and other resources. Specific programs include Beef Cattle fIRM Computer software designed for beef cattle producers. MANAGE program designed specifically to help Tennessee farm families carefully evaluate their individual situation and assist them in improving their quality of life. Over 8,000 Tennessee farm families have participated in the intensive farm and financial planning phase of MANAGE. Enterprise Budgets Short-term planning budgets for livestock and major field crop enterprises.
|
| > |
Home, Lawn, and Garden
Contact: Sheldon D. Barker
Insect and Disease control recommendations, vegetable varieties, seed propagation, greener lawns, fertilizers, weed control, and soil fertility are just a few programs offered by the Extension Service through educational programs, farm and landowner visits, demonstrations, and publications.
|
| > |
Master Gardener
Contact: Sheldon Barker
The Master Gardener Program is offered by The University of Tennessee Extension. Its main goal is to increase the availability of horticultural information to improve quality of life with community garden/landscape programs. This could only be possible through the training and utilization of local volunteers. These volunteers, known, as Master Gardeners, aid Extension by running plant clinics; answering phone requests for horticultural information; establishing and maintaining demonstration gardens; working with the handicapped, youth, the elderly, and other special groups in the community; designing and implementing community involvement projects; as well as coordinating Master Gardener training programs.
The purpose of the Master Gardener program is to train citizens as horticultural-educated volunteers of The University of Tennessee Extension and the Tennessee State Cooperative Extension Program to work in partnership with their counties to expand the educational outreach by providing home gardeners with researched-based information.
|
| > |
Beef and Forage Production
Contact: Sheldon Barker
Beef Cattle Management and Forage Production
|
| > |
Forestry
Contact: Sheldon Barker
Information for Forest Landowners
|
| > |
Master Beef Producer
Contact: Sheldon Barker
MBP
|
|
|
