Strengthening Natural Resources

Our Agriculture & Natural Resources program thrived to meet the needs of agricultural producers, agribusiness people, landowners, gardeners, and others involved in using our natural resources.

Activities varied and included Agronomy Day '07, Beef Performance Testing, Introduction to Forest Management, Gardening TeleNets, Soybean Rust Update, Western Soybean Cutworm Teleconference, Pesticide Safety Education Program, Farm Conservation Programs TeleNet, Greene County Acres newsletter, and more.

The program reached both adults and youth as it with various livestock activities for youth including the 4-H projects including beef, swine, sheep, goats, and others, 4-H Livestock Shows, 4-H Livestock Auction, and Rate-of-Gain Contests.

Information and assistance on agriculture and natural resources were provided by Extension Educators, Master Gardeners, Distance Diagnostics through Digital Imaging System (DDDI), and office resources to 225 individual citizens.

The five University of Illinois Extension Master Gardeners have helped improve the horticulture program by answering questions from local gardeners, writing articles for The Greene Thumb newsletter, judging at the 4-H Hortculture Show, and helping plan the horticulture program.