Agriculture

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer will talk about the effects of the recent drought in Kentucky and throughout the Midwest on a national television business program.

Commissioner Comer will appear on the Fox Business program “MONEY with Melissa Francis” July 25 at 1:30 p.m. EDT.

Submitted by Alice Anne Shaughnessy-Begay
RN, MA, Folklorist and Kentucky Master Gardener
The Master Gardeners Association of Grayson County will host Kentucky author and Master Gardener Karen Angelucci on Aug. 9.
Angelucci will discuss her book “Secrets of a Kentucky Gardener” at the Grayson County Extension office. The event begins at 6 pm. and desserts will be served.

By Katie Pratt
UK Extension Service
With much of the state’s corn crop either beginning to or preparing to enter pollination, the weather continues to be hot and dry.
According to the June 25 Kentucky Weekly Crop and Weather Report, 29 percent of the state’s corn crop has entered the silking stage and 50 percent has reached tasseling.

An 8.5 pound zucchini went unnoticed in Tina and Donald Warren’s garden until June 21.

Neither had planted zucchini this year and they were not looking for the green vegetable that is often harvested at eight- to nine-inches long. This zucchini, however, grew to 15 inches and weighed 8.5 pounds, the same as their granddaughter Hannah weighed when she was born. The plant grew from a tilled patch under the Warren’s shed, where their garden was last year.