Shrooms - All Things Country Inc

FEBRUARY 2012
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Blooms
In Conjunction with the
22nd Annual Mountain
Mushroom Festival ...
Shrooms
‘n’
SPRING PHOTO CONTEST
Winning Photo to be featured as the May 2012
front cover of All Things Country Magazine.
Photo subjects are either blooms or shrooms:
1] Spring ‘blooms’ - flowering red bud trees, dogwoods, tulips, daffodils, just
the splendor of spring or they can be....
2] Spring ‘shrooms’ - Morel Mushrooms to be exact!
Contest Rules:
1] Photos submitted via mail must be at least 8x10’s. Photos submitted
electronically through email must be at least 600 DPI and in jpg or
tif format.
2] Only two entries per person accepted.
3] All entries, either through the mail or email, must include your
name, address, telephone number and where you took the picture.
4] Photos must have been taken in 2012. Since our readers come from
all over the USA, they aren’t limited to Kentucky. Show us your
beauty too.
5] Helpful hint .... our cover is vertical, so the winning photo must be
oriented vertically to be used on the cover. Cover size is 9.25 inches
wide by 11.75 inches deep.
6] All entries must be received by April 15, 2012.
Email to pam@allthingscountryky.com or send to
Photos, 60 Thornburg Bend, Irvine, KY 40336.
You may also drop photos off at Irvine City Hall.
Get your cameras out!!!
Top 10 photos to be
displayed at the 2012
Mountain Mushroom
Festival, held in Estill
County, Kentucky on
April 28 & 29, 2012
$ 100.00 CASH
for First Place!
2nd Place receives a
$ 50.00 Gift Certificate to
Murphy’s Camera
3rd - 5th Place each receive a
1 year subscription to All
Things Country Magazine
Photos judged
by Murphy’s
Camera in
Making Hay Before May?
After an extremely warm winter, many forage grasses and
small grains used for forages are quickly nearing the stages
where they need to be cut to maintain optimum feed quality, according
to Ray Smith, Extension forage specialist in the University
of Kentucky College of Agriculture.
Smith said this is the earliest forages have matured in the
seven years he’s been at UK. Depending on the area of the state,
this is two to three weeks ahead of schedule. “Alfalfa and small
grains lose nutrient value as they get to the later growth stages,”
Smith said. “However, nutrient values in small grains drop
much quicker than in alfalfa.” Small grains, like wheat, rye and
barley, are cut for high-quality silage used to feed dairy cattle.
Producers should harvest them at the late boot stage to get the
highest quality. Much of the wheat used for silage could reach
this stage by mid-April.
For optimum quality and yield, alfalfa and should be cut at
bud stage, before the blooms are open. Orchardgrass needs to be
cut at boot stage before the seed head emerges. “Alfalfa in many
areas of Southern Kentucky is ready to be cut now,” Smith said.
“Alfalfa in Central and Northern Kentucky is probably one to
two weeks from being ready for its first cutting. Some parts of
Kentucky will have orchardgrass at boot stage within one to two
weeks.”
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Before harvesting, he suggested alfalfa producers scout
their fields for damage from the alfalfa weevil. If damage is
significant on stands that are ready for harvesting, producers
should cut the alfalfa to control the insect. Producers should
check their fields about five days after cutting to see if normal
regrowth is occurring. If present in high enough numbers,
surviving weevil larvae and adults can damage regrowth. If the
alfalfa isn’t ready for harvest and there is a significant amount
of weevil damage, producers need to spray their fields with an
insecticide. UK entomologist Lee Townsend said producers need
to check the “days to harvest” section of the label when selecting
products to see how long to wait between application and
harvest. This interval varies with products and application rates.
In addition, other cool-season forages like tall fescue will
be ready for cutting earlier than normal this spring. “Ideally
producers make a first cutting by mid-May to get a good quality
feed, but this year, harvesting in late April may be too late to
get high quality grass hay,” Smith said. “Because a first cutting
is needed earlier than normal, there’s a very good chance for
producers to get a high quality second cutting before the hot
temperatures of summer set in.”
Since producers are harvesting high quality forages of all
types, a lot of nutrients are going to be removed from the soils
with the cuttings. Producers will want to follow fertilizer recommendations
for replacing the lost nutrients found in UK extension
publication AGR 1: Lime and Nutrient Recommendations.
It is available online at HYPERLINK “http://www.ca.uky.edu/
agc/pubs/agr/agr1/agr1.pdf” http://www.ca.uky.edu/agc/
pubs/agr/agr1/agr1.pdf or at the local office of the UK Cooperative
Extension Service.
For more information, contact the Estill County Extension
Office at 723-4557 or contact a local veterinarian. Educational
programs of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service serve
all people regardless of race, color, age, sex, religion, disability
or national origin.
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