The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network, better known as CoCoRaHS, is looking for volunteer weather observers here in the Volunteer State and in Clay County. CoCoRaHS, based at Colorado State University and started in 1998, is a unique, … Continue reading →
CLAY COUNTY-Tracey Hackett was hired as a UT Extension agent and will assume duties in both 4-H Youth Development and Family and Consumer Sciences it was recently announced by Randall Kimes, UT Extension Director here. “I am anticipating good things … Continue reading →
By JEFF THOMPSON Area Forester Fall colors reach their peak during mid to late October in the Upper Cumberland Region, as is evident here now. A wide variety of colors can be found in the woods, including: • Dogwood, sumac, … Continue reading →
JOHNSTON (IA)-Matthew Craighead of Moss has been selected to participate in the 2012 New Century Farmer Program July 8-14 here in Johnston, Iowa. The son of Robert and Debra Craighead, the 2009 Clay County High School graduate is one of … Continue reading →
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The annual Clay County Soil Conservation District Awards Banquet attended by more than 200 people who celebrated the district’s accomplishments during 2011 was held here late last year in the Women’s Center Building of the Clay County Recreation Complex
Seedlings will be available free of charge at Radio Shack here March 2 beginning at 8:30 a.m. in celebration of Arbor Day. Baldcypress, pin oak, and pecan will be given away this year on a first come-first serve basis continuing … Continue reading →
Nashville-The Tennessee Division of Forestry has quarantined the counties of Claiborne, Grainger, Knox, Loudon, Blount and Sevier from wood removal due to the Emerald Ash borer; the counties of Union, Anderson, Knox, Loudon, Blount, and Sevier for Thousand cancers disease(TCD) … Continue reading →
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency is offering a one-time incentive payment of $100 per acre for farmers to plant wide (50 feet or more average width) native grass buffers on crop fields under a 10-year contract in the … Continue reading →
The Jackson/Clay Farm Service Agency county committee and employees honored Gene Hickman on December 9, 2010 for outstanding service to the agriculture community in Jackson and Clay County. Leonard Eugene Hickman has served on the FSA county committee for one … Continue reading →
Kerry King, Executive Director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in Jackson/Clay county announced that the 2009 FSA county committee elections have started. Ballots have been mailed to eligible voters and Dec. 7, 2009, is the deadline for eligible … Continue reading →
KNOXVILLE-In the course of a year, how many people do we see? How many lives do we touch? Those are numbers Joseph Donaldson wants to know – and he trains others to find that valuable information. Donaldson is … Continue reading →
WASHINGTON-With extreme rainfall and flooding damaging Clay County farms in July, Congressman Bart Gordon announced that the U.S. Agriculture Department declared Clay County a federal agriculture disaster area. “The storms destroyed crop yields across Clay, significantly affecting the … Continue reading →