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The Farm Service Agency reminds Conservation Reserve Program participants that the participant is responsible for maintaining the established practices according to the CRP or CREP conservation plan of operation throughout the contract period.
This responsibility includes excluding livestock and controlling soil erosion along with controlling diseases, insects, undesirable plants and noxious weeds to a level that does not adversely affect the long-term sustainability of the established species or that poses offsite drift problems.

TC Aberdeen Ace 966 won grand champion bull at the 2011 Kentucky Angus Association Preview Show on June 17 in Louisville, Ky. Owners are Buckner and Jeffries of Canmer, TC Ranch Inc. of Franklin, Neb. and J.R. Smoot of Campbellsville. TC Aberdeen Ace 966 is the son of TC Aberdeen 759. He first claimed senior champion. James Pipkin of Republic, Mo. evaluated the 70 entries.

An estimated 300,000 sports-related traumatic brain injuries are reported in the United States each year. Concussion is the most common sports-related brain injury, second only to motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of traumatic injury among 15- to 24-year-olds.

Properly diagnosing concussion and seeking treatment early helps athletes recover more quickly, and this is the reason KORT has developed a new concussion management program.

Farmers and ranchers applying for assistance for 2009 crop losses under the Supplemental Revenue Assistance Payments program, also known as SURE, have until July 29 to submit an application.

SURE provides crop disaster assistance to eligible producers who have suffered crop production or quality losses. Producers in a secretarial declared county must have suffered at least a 10 percent loss on a crop of economic significance. For those producers not in a secretarial declared county, a total farm production loss of greater than 50 percent must occur.