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N LOCALLY GaOwN <br />COOPERATIVE <br />EXTENSION <br />�1 er /J <br />UNC cxAxr OnT <br />College of Arts + Afchitecture <br />Sth-1 of—hll ... <br />Lomax Agricultural Learning Center <br />Program Development Plan <br />201 4 - 201 7 <br />Addendum A: <br />Cabarrus County Cooperative Extension Programming Opportunities <br />Broad Educational and Operational Opportunities: <br />• Informal Agriculture Training for Beginning Farmers. <br />Developments in soil science. Look at the work of Julius Hensel, Justus von <br />Leibig, Louie Pasteur, Michael Beauchamp, Albert Howard, William Albrecht, <br />Carey Reams, Al Lingell and others. How to use that knowledge to manage soils <br />and plant physiology to produce nutrient dense crops that have greater resistance <br />to temperature extremes, less insect and disease damage, longer shelf life, better <br />taste and better health giving benefits to those who consume them. <br />Management of the soils Examine physical, chemical and biological <br />characteristics to enhance crop production yield and quality and keep erosion to a <br />minimum. <br />Johnsongrass elimination. Farmers might be able to make a profit planting, <br />harvesting, processing and marketing vegetables. Time spent digging <br />Johnsongrass is time the farmer is not doing the above list, therefore it leads to <br />less profit. Make a commitment to eliminate Johnsongrass from the Incubator <br />Farm and actually do all that is necessary to eliminate it. Putting someone who <br />thinks that they want to farm into a Johnsongrass patch is probably not the best <br />way to encourage more people to become farmers. <br />Attachment number 3 <br />G -2 Page 192 <br />