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Vol. 9, No. 2 November 19, 2002
IN THIS ISSUE...
...Five Year Plan Update
...2002 Kansas Youth Leadership
Forum
...Retirement Celebration for Phyllis Howerton
...BeefTips Newsletter in Electronic Format Only
...Kids Excited About Ag
...2002 County Trade Pull Factor Report
...Back to the Farm Animals
...LEADS Newsletter
...Publications/Production Services Update
...Master Schedule
...Tuesday
Letter Archives
FIVE YEAR PLAN UPDATE
A DRAFT update of our K-State Research and Extension Long-Term Intended
Outcomes and Core Mission Themes appears in the next two paragraphs. You
will notice significant rewording of these statements from previous
drafts.
Draft Long-Term Intended Outcomes
1. Healthy Nutrition and Physical
Activity
2. Healthy and Sustainable Family and Community Environments
3. Positive Youth Development
4. Adult and Older Adult Quality of Life
5. New and Enhanced Value-added Products from Agricultural
Resource
6. Conservation of Soil, Water, and Energy Resources
7. Improved Quality of Land, Air, and Water
8. Efficient Sustainable Plant Production Systems
9. Efficient Sustainable Animal Production Systems
10. Agricultural Business Development and Management
11. Safe, Secure, High-quality Food Supply from Production to Consumption
12. Enhanced Nutritional Quality of the Food Supply
Draft Core Mission Themes
* Healthy Communities: Youth, Adults, and
Families
* Safe, High-quality, and Healthy Food and Nutrition
* Adding Value to Agricultural Products
* Natural Resources and Environmental Management
* Competitive Agricultural Systems
These changes reflect on-going discussions
at many levels and responses to input received via the web site, breakout
sessions at Annual Conference, e-mails, letters, direct contact, and other
means. Five Year Plan Steering Committee; Randy Higgins rhiggins@oznet.ksu.edu
, Forrest Chumley fchumley@oznet.ksu.edu
, and Larry Erpelding lerpeldi@oznet.ksu.edu
co-chairs
2002 KANSAS YOUTH LEADERSHIP FORUM
The 2002 Kansas Youth Leadership Forum will be held at Rock Springs 4-H
Center November 22 - 24. Forum details were mailed to local Extension
offices on November 7. Over 200 youth and adults have registered for the
Forum.
As part of the Community Service
activities for the Forum, delegates are being asked to bring
non-perishable food items that will be donated to the Flint Hills
Breadbasket. If you are not attending the Forum, but would like to
contribute to the food drive, you may send items with a local delegate,
or bring them to the State 4-H Office before November 22. --Beth Hinshaw
bhinshaw@oznet.ksu.edu
and Lindy Lindquist llindqui@oznet.ksu.edu
RETIREMENT
CELEBRATION FOR PHYLLIS HOWERTON
Phyllis will be retiring at the end of 2002 after 36 years as a FACS agent
in Reno County.
Please join us as we celebrate her
contributions to K-State Research and Extension and Reno County and wish
her enjoyment and relaxation for the future. We will host a reception on
Sunday, December 8, from 2 - 4 p.m., at Park Place Christian Church, 26th
and Adams, Hutchinson. Cards may be mailed to the Reno County Extension
Office in care of Shelley Charles, 2 W. 10th, South Hutchinson, KS 67505.
--Pam Paulsen ppaulsen@oznet.ksu.edu
BEEFTIPS NEWSLETTER
IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT ONLY
The BeefTips newsletter has gone to an electronic format only. The
November Issue can be retrieved at the following web address: www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_ansi/nletter/beeftips.htm
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To subscribe to this newsletter
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difficulties subscribing or if you would like us to subscribe for you,
contact Becky Darling, rdarling@oznet.ksu.edu
; or Sandy Johnson, skjohnso@oznet.ksu.edu
; or call 785-462-6281. --Sandy Johnson
KIDS EXCITED ABOUT AG
Here is an opportunity to help the Council for Agricultural Science and
Technology (CAST) and to possibly give some recognition to some of our
Kansas students in grades 6 through 8. (Future college students and
potential recruits down the road.) Apparently there were far more
entries than CAST can handle by itself.
Due to an excellent response to CAST's
National Student Essay Contest, Boundless Science for a Bountiful
Agriculture by 6th, 7th and 8th grade students in Kansas, we need
additional judges to evaluate and score essays . Would you and a few of
your colleagues like to help?
We estimate that the prospective judges
would be making a time commitment of one to two evenings. Scoring
criteria for these up to 500-word essays has been established and each
judge will be asked to review and score no more than 30 essays, from
students in their respective state. Contest Judges must have an
educational background and/or professional experience in food science,
agricultural science, natural resources, or agricultural communication
and must have completed no less than their sophomore year in college.
For each prospective judge you identify, please send his/her name,
title, and e-mail address to the CAST essay contest coordinator, Tamara
Mitchell, tmitchell@cast-science.org
. --Randy Higgins rhiggins@oznet.ksu.edu
2002 COUNTY TRADE PULL FACTOR REPORT
David Darling and Mark Seitz just published the 2002 County Trade Pull
Factor Report. This is C.D. Study Report # 210.
The report is posted on Darling's web
site: www.agecon.ksu.edu/ddarling
. This report measures retail activity in fiscal year 2001 and 2002.
There are three different measures of retail activity and strength in
the report. The first is a pull factor that measures the trade balance
across county borders. The next is a customer count of the customer base
of the business community in all 105 counties. And, the last is a
measure of the market capture or percent of all taxable trade captured
by each business community. --David Darling ddarling@mail.agecon.ksu.edu
BACK TO THE FARM ANIMALS
Thanks for your support of this fund raiser for the State 4-H Youth
Council and the Kansas 4-H Foundation. Here's an update on the Back to
the Farm animals and 4-H Bears:
4-H Brown Bear with Glasses - less
than 20 left
4-H Green Bear with 1902 - 2002 on paws - SOLD OUT
4-H Chicken - less than 20 left
4-H Cow - SOLD OUT
4-H Freedom Bear - 60 left
4-H Goat - still on back order
4-H Horse - 75 left
4-H Pig - less than 20 left
4-H Rabbit - 85 left
4-H Sheep - less than 20 left
As soon as we receive the backordered
items, we will send them to those who wanted them shipped, and call
those who were going to pick them up. Collectibles are $10 each if
picked up at the State 4-H office or State 4-H events, or $14 if you
would like them to be mailed.
At the current time, it doesn't appear
that we will be able to order any more of these items when they sell
out. The company does plan to feature a new bear in 2003, and Council
will place an order when they are available. --Lindy Lindquist llindqui@oznet.ksu.edu
LEADS NEWSLETTER
Can true leadership survive in "lean times" or does it
play out the same way the TV show, Survivor, does? The latest LEADS
Newsletter, found at http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/leads/welcome.asp
, has insights and guides to help leaders on the job and in the
community. Read the October/November/December LEADS Newsletter. --Katey
Walker kwalker@oznet.ksu.edu
PUBLICATIONS/PRODUCTION
SERVICES UPDATE
Got Copies?
Don't forget the Duplicating Center in Umberger Hall to take care of your
copying and printing needs. Services include high speed digital copying,
saddlestitching, multicolor printing, folding, spiral binding, perfect
binding, paper cutting, poster printing and shrink-wrapping. Copy prices
begin at less than $0.04 (plus paper), depending on quantity. For offset
printing and specific estimates, contact Greg LeValley at 785-532-1158 or
e-mail glevalle@oznet.ksu.edu
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Late Fruit
The publications "Strawberries," MF-598; and "Why Fruit
Trees Fail to Bear," MF-2166; are being revised and will be offered
on an upcoming new/revised order form. First quarter orders will be
canceled.
Place New Standing Orders
If your office maintains a standing order for publications from the
Agricultural Experiment Station, including crop performance test
publications, it's time to revise your order for 2003. To save postage and
printing costs, please check your office distribution of last year's
titles and order based on the number you wish to distribute. To order,
contact Jane Gibbs at 785-532-1146 or jgibbs@oznet.ksu.edu
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Publications Deadfiled
The following printed publications have been deadfiled, but will continue
to be available electronically:
MF-934 Consumer Choice: Buying Consumer
Services
MF-929 Consumer Choice: Right and Responsibilities
MF-2281 Privacy in the Information Age (Fact Sheet)
MF-2281A Privacy in the Information Age (Teaching Guide)
L-829 Motivating Yourself and Your Volunteers
MF-2228 Be a Winner, Avoid Consumer Fraud (Teaching Guide)
The following have been deadfiled as both
print and electronic publications. Any copies remaining should not be
distributed:
P-1023 Arts and Crafts Record
P-1003 4H Horse Record
-- Nancy Zimmerli nancyz@oznet.ksu.edu
VIEW
THE MASTER SCHEDULE OR ADD NEW ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS .
Submit corrections to previously submitted items to jzarger@oznet.ksu.edu
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DATES TAKEN FROM THE MASTER
SCHEDULE FOR NOVEMBER 27, 2002, THROUGH DECEMBER 3, 2002:
Thursday, November 28,
through Friday, November 29
.... Thanksgiving Holiday
Friday, November 29,
through Tuesday, December 3
.... National 4-H Congress, Atlanta, GA, Steve Fisher sfisher@oznet.ksu.edu
Monday, December 2
.... Emporia Ag Profitability Conference, Emporia and surrounding
area, SE, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., Brian Creager bcreager@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Kansas Assn of Wheat Growers Annual Meeting, Garden City,
Statewide, Brett Myers bmyers@flinthills.com
Monday, December 2, through
Thursday, December 5
.... North Central Weed Science Society, St. Louis, MO, Dallas
Peterson dpeterso@oznet.ksu.edu
Tuesday, December 3
.... Seneca Ag Profitability Conference, Seneca/NM and surrounding
area, NE, 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m., David Key dkey@oznet.ksu.edu
.... Regional Irrigation Meeting on Kansas Water Issues and
Policies, Hugoton/SV (Stevens Co. Courthouse - Memorial Hall), 9:30 a.m. -
3:00 p.m., Gary Gold ggold@oznet.ksu.edu
and Mahbub Alam malam@oznet.ksu.edu
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