Events

2025

March 4, 2025 - Regional Burley Variety Evaluation Update - Southern Piedmont AREC, Blackstone (ZOOM/Hybrid) - 9:00 AM to 11 AM
March 12, 2025 - Beef Quality Assurance Recertification - Southern Piedmont AREC, Blackstone - 7:30 AM to 5:00 PM
April 8-10, 2025 - 5th Grade Ag Awareness Days - Southern Piedmont AREC, Blackstone
April 15-16, 2025 - 3rd Grade Ag Awareness Days - Southern Piedmont AREC, Blackstone
July 31, 2025 (Tentative) - Row Crops Field Day - Southern Piedmont AREC, Blackstone

Click below to view 2024 Field Day photos:

Crop Field Day - July 25, 2024

Three researchers in the field giving a presentation using microphone.

A group seated at tables views a video on a large screen.

People loading into wagons for field day tours

Field day attendees looking at plant samples set up in booth.

john deere tractor in the field

A professor in the field speaks to attendees at the field day.

People seated in the auditorium at tables.

A drone in the field prepared for a demonstration flight.

A woman wearing a hat and glasses holds a tobacco leaf in the field.

A young man with a microphone speaks in the field.

A weather station in the field at Southern Piedmont AREC

Forage and Livestock Field Day - September 19, 2024

A sign labeled Kentucky 32 is shown in the ground in front of visitors examining the grass during the Forage & Livestock Field Day

A group of field day attendees examine the grasses along the edge of field trial plots.

Visitors walk around grass plots with tractors and trailers in the background.

A woman in cap discusses the field plots with a man in cap.

A group of four men and a woman stand in the field during a field day presentation.

Orange and white flags line the edge of a field as field day attendees examine the trial plots.

Three men discuss grasses along edge of field.

A VCE agent holding a microphone speaks to a group during field day.

A man behind a table prepares a hand-held device for use as a woman with microphone speaks to the field day attendees.

A man in cap stands beside a table as he speaks to the field day attendees lining the edge of a field.

A black cow gazes through metal fencing.

A man in cap speaks to a group near the livestock area of a field.

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