The Tuesday Letter
Agricultural Experiment Station & Cooperative Extension Service
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
(Vol. 20 No. 41)
IN THIS ISSUE...
WORD FROM THE ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR - EXTENSION AND APPLIED RESEARCH
Following is a message I sent to 22 Extension agents who
engaged in PROGRAM PLANNING training this past week. Those 22 agents were as follows: JoEllyn Argabright; Dusti Betts; Michelle
Buchanan; Darren Busick; Crystal Futrell; Dale Helwig; John Jobe; Angela Jones;
Karol Lohman; Laura Marks; Jill Morgan; Olivia Moore; Jake Renner; Nora
Rhoades; Aaron Sawyers; Kurt Sexton; Jeri Sigle; Nicolette Unruh; Megan
Westerhold; Marlin Bates; Chuckie Hessong; and Beth Ireland. I share it with you, to share the pride I
have in the great work this group of our newer employees demonstrated as a
result of the training. I encourage you to talk to any of these Extension professionals about the experience and how they hope to take what they learned and use it for continuous improvement in Making a Difference and delivering Knowledge for Life.
I want to congratulate each of you in your Logic Model
presentations focused on the Grand Challenges.
I was so impressed with the thoughtful work you presented in developing
a compelling situation, and careful thoughts on short, medium, and long term
outcomes, the outputs, and the inputs necessary. While the grand challenges function at the
30,000 foot level, I was also impressed with how each of you brought those
plans back down to your own situation in your district or county. WELL DONE!!
I also noted the
excitement, enthusiasm, and passion in your presentations. I sincerely hope you will hold on to that
positive approach to the opportunities for Extension programming. It is contagious. But as with anything contagious, some people
get it and others don’t. It’s important that you continue to be positively
contagious!!
You learned that I am somewhat of a “WHY” person. Your situation statements within each of the
grand challenges did an effective job at explaining why you believe it
important for Extension to develop a plan to address the situation. To be contagious, must create the compelling
why with any program you develop. That
comes through your hard work creating the compelling situation and then through
your vision of what could be through effective Extension programming. You’ve learned that skill in this
training. Please continue to practice,
practice, practice, and develop that skill.
It will pay huge dividends in years to come in getting your audiences,
stakeholders, and community leaders excited to be a part of the Extension
programming in your communities.
Thanks for the hard work and outstanding presentations. I’m excited for the future of Kansas
Extension with each of you contributing to that future!!
All the best to each of you!
And, have a great week! - Daryl Buchholz dbuchhol@ksu.edu
HELP WANTED AT THE KSRE AND COA STATE FAIR BOOTHS
The College of
Agriculture and K-State Research and Extension will once again have booths in
the Pride of Kansas building at the Kansas State Fair in Hutchinson. The Kansas
State Fair runs from Friday, September 5, through Sunday, September 14, 2014. We
are celebrating 100 years of the Kansas Cooperative Extension Service. Exciting
year for all of us.
We would appreciate faculty and staff from campus,
area offices, county/district offices, Agronomy Fields, and Research-Extension
Centers coming to the fair and signing up to work a few hours in one or both of
the booths. Also, we would really appreciate agents and/or faculty, who are
coming to the fair anyway, signing up to work a couple of hours in a booth
before or after your activities.
Listed below are
dates and times that we still need help:
Friday,
September 5 - 11 a.m. - 6 p.m.
Saturday, September 6 - 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. (KFMA taking this entire day)
Sunday, September 7 – 12 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Monday, September 8 – 1 p.m. - 9 p.m.
Tuesday, September 9 – 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. (SG County Extension Office taking
this entire day)
Wednesday, September 10 – 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Thursday, September 11 - 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. (KCARE taking this entire day)
Friday, September 12 – 12 p.m.. - 4 p.m.
Saturday, September 13 - 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
Sunday,
September 14 - 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.
If you would
like to work in the K-State Research and Extension booth, please contact Maria
Sweet, marswe@ksu.edu, by August
26.
If you would like to work in the College of Agriculture booth, please
contact Sandy Klein, sandy@ksu.edu,
by August 26.
We will be in touch in late August/early September to
finalize days, times, entrance tickets, etc. --Sandy Klein and Steven Graham sgraham@k-state.edu
YOUR INVITATION TO ROBERT BURTON'S "LAST LECTURE" FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
More than 5,000 students later, K-State’s Burton to give one ‘Last Lecture’
from “Production Economics” to “Rural Banking.” For 30 years Bob Burton has helped shape students’ understanding of economic theory and more. The Kansas State University agricultural economics professor will give one last lecture on Tuesday, August 26, and this time the public is invited.
Burton will speak about the reflections of his career in the Cottonwood Room of the K-State Union at 4 p.m. CDT. Refreshments will be served. He retired on July 5.
The lecture is one of several planned this fall as part of a “Last Lecture” series in which several K-State Department of Agricultural Economics faculty members will give one last lecture for the campus community and the public shortly after retiring.
Burton taught numerous courses since coming to K-State in 1984 as an assistant professor. He became professor in 1999.
He is credited with being instrumental in the department’s distance education movement through his undergraduate “Farm and Ranch Management” course. He also taught “Farm Resource Acquisition and Finance,” “Farm Management Strategies,” “Advanced Farm Economics,” and “Computer Applications in Agricultural Economics and Agribusiness.”
Through those courses and his earlier work at West Virginia University, Burton taught more than 5,000 students.
Burton said he particularly enjoyed teaching “Production Economics” because it taught students to understand economic theory, which was useful in whatever careers they chose.
His research often focused on risk and return in whole-farm or ranch management and most recently, on farm land ownership as a retirement strategy and agricultural health and safety.
Burton earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in agricultural economics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1969 and 1977, respectively. He earned a Ph.D. in agricultural economics at Purdue University in 1982.
Before coming to K-State, he was an assistant professor at West Virginia University and also served in the U.S. Navy for four years.
Some of his honors included the Gamma Sigma Delta Outstanding Teaching Award, 2008; Recognized by Mortar Board Senior Honor Society of Kansas State University for “Outstanding commitment to students of Kansas State University” 2007; and the Western Agricultural Economics Association, Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching with More Than 10 Years of Experience, 2003.
More information about Burton’s August 26 lecture or any in the “Last Lecture” series is available by contacting Judy Maberry at judym@k-state.edu or 785-532-4493. --Amanda Erichsen aerichsen@ksu.edu
2014 KANSAS OUT-OF-SCHOOL CONFERENCE
Want to engage youth in long-term, structured
learning-environments that address their interests and help develop
their
physical, cognitive, social and emotional skills and abilities? Are you
interested in expanding your youth programming into the after-school
hours?
This
one-day conference sponsored by K-State Research and Extension 4-H, Kansas 21st
Century Community Learning Centers, and the Kansas Enrichment Network highlights
hands-on curricula that adapt easily for out-of-school settings. The conference
is open to anyone, including certified teachers, afterschool program directors,
community or faith-based afterschool providers, summer recreation providers and
extension agents.
Date:
October 7, 2014, 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.
Location: Sedgwick County Extension Office in Wichita
Cost:
$15 per person (includes catered lunch)
Register online at https://adobeformscentral.com/?f=QTOHNlEkzef0jUuQZqBCVA#. For questions, please contact Beth
Drescher, drescher@ksu.edu. --Beth Drescher
KANSAS 4-H LEADERSHIP WEEKEND
The Kansas Youth Leadership Forum (KYLF) and the Kansas Volunteer Forum (KVF) information is now available on the 4-H Website and registration is open on the 4-H CVent Registration System. The Kansas 4-H Leadership Weekend featuring the Forums will be held November 21-23, 2014 at Rock Springs 4-H Center. KYLF is for youth, ages 14-18 before January 1, 2015, and KVF is for all Kansas 4-H Volunteers.
KYLF will feature leadership workshops, Youth Council Elections, and opportunities to learn and have fun. The Kansas 4-H Volunteer Forum will include lightning rounds, workshops, sharing resources and opportunities for networking. Joint activities between the two Forums will include the keynote speaker and the inspirational program.
Online Registration is available now. This year participants in both forums will register though the same system. Registration deadline is October 15, 2014 for both events. Kansas Youth Leadership Forum Kansas 4-H Volunteer Forum Online Registration --Rod Buchele rbuchele@ksu.edu and Beth HInshaw bhinshaw@ksu.edu
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