New UK CSA analysis a wealth of informationWe are very excited to share the brand new publication, Economic Analysis of the University of Kentucky Community Supported Ag-riculture Organic Vegetable Production System by Tiffany Thomp-son, Mark Williams, Tim Woods, Carl Dillon, and Ric Bessin. The report offers an overview and analysis of the 5.5-acre, 225-member UK CSA at the University of Kentucky Horticulture Research Farm (South Farm).

Highlights from the report:• The production system overview describes in detail how the UK-CSA grows crops on both bareground and plastic mulch, in-cluding bed and row spacing, tractors and implements, soil man-agement, irrigation, pest management, harvest and post-harvest handling, and CSA delivery. • The economic analysis consists of thirty organic crop enterprise budgets and a whole farm analysis at a scale of 225 CSA members. • The whole farm budget combines total crop production costs with overhead costs to determine a return to management for a farm selling 225 CSA shares.• This economic analysis aims to contribute to the understand-ing of costs and potential return for mechanized organic vegetable production for a CSA market. Understanding costs can lead to an appropriate match of scale, CSA share size, CSA share price, and expected return to management. This analysis will help existing farmers evaluate their own enterprises and provide new farmers with benchmarking profitability data.

The entire report and supplementary workbooks are available on-line here.

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Coming upJuly 24 - UK Viticulture and Enology Field Day, 8:30 to 3 p.m. EDT, at the UK Horti-culture Research Farm in Lexington. For more infor-mation, click here.

July 27 - Ohio State Univer-sity South Centers Hops Pre-Harvest Field Night, 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. EDT. Cost: $25 per person, $40 per family (up to 3 people). Includes dinner. Pre-regis-tration required by July 25. For details, click here.

August 17 - Organic Hemp and Grain Field Day at Mt. Folly Farm, 3043 Scholls-ville Road, Winchester, KY 40391. 10 a.m.-1 p.m. For more information, visit https://www.oak-ky.org/copy-of-events-1.

September 8-11 - 2017 Hemp Industries Association Conference, Lexington. For details, see Page 2.

July 2017Brett Wolff, EditorChristy Cassady, Editor/Designer

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The 24th annual Hemp Industries Association Conference is coming to Lexington, KY this year in partnership with the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment, the American Society of Agronomy, and the Crop Science Society of America. The September 8th-11th event will be the first hemp conference in the Unit-ed States to bring together industry professionals, scientists and policymakers. The event will be held at the Lexington Center and Hyatt Regency Hotel.

Friday, September 8th, will be Hemp Industry As-sociation members only day. Conference activi-ties on September 9th-11th will be open to anyone registered for the conference. The conference will feature three tracks - science, industry and policy. It will also offer a scientific poster session and a trade show.

On September 9th, the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment will host an industrial hemp farm and processing plant tour. The tour will begin at UK’s Spindletop Research Farm in Lexington, with the UK industrial hemp research field day at 10 a.m. Next, tour participants will get a first-hand look at hemp being harvested for grain

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at a local farm. They will move on to Winchester, where they will tour the hemp processing facilities at the Atalo Holdings Hemp Research Campus.

The conference will include speakers from UK, Cornell, Colorado State and Purdue universities, the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, hemp industry associations and processing compa-nies. For registration and hotel information, visit https://thehia.org/event-2535421.

Auctions going strongFairview Produce Auction in Kentucky’s Chris-tian County is gearing up for the busiest time of the season. To access price reports from produce auctions in Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio, visit the Center for Crop Diversification website at www.uky.edu/ccd/pricereports.

Photos by Brett Wolff, UK

Hemp Industries Association Conference coming to Lexington

Photo by Matt Barton, UK Agricultural Communications

UK’s industrial hemp research at Spindletop Farm will be featured as part of a hemp farming and processing plant tour hosted by the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environ-ment on September 9th.

Partner Profile: KCARDThe Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (KCARD) is a 501 (c)-3 non-profit organization established to facilitate agricultural and rural business development in Kentucky. KCARD provides technical assistance, education-al opportunities, and business support services to businesses that are mutually owned by producers.KCARD’s Executive Director and staff are famil-iar with various business structures, and they consult with emerging or existing businesses on critical questions related to incorporating, financ-ing, management, marketing, accounting and le-gal concerns. KCARD’s staff networks with state and national resources to assist with all aspects of business development.

You should get to know the KCARD Team. They can help you with:

• Business Development• Business Maintenance Services• Training & Webinars (including the wildly

popular KCARD Grant Workshops)• Agribusiness Grant Facilitation

You can find more information, including how to start working with KCARD, at http://www.kcard.info.

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Christy Cassady, Extension Specialist

CCD crop profile updateThree more crop profiles have been updat-ed and posted on the CCD website in July. They are High Tunnel Leafy Greens & Herbs, Garden Mums, and Heirloom Vegetables. Look for more new and updated profiles in the coming months on our website at http://www.uky.edu/ccd/production and http://www.uky.edu/ccd/marketing.

Department of HorticultureN-318 Agricultural Science CenterLexington, KY, 40546-0091