A time to enjoy cooler weather and the beautiful leaf changes. Extension is changing into fall programming with activities like 4-H presentations and exhibits at the NC State fairgrounds, watching our health before the holiday meals with nutrition classes, and prepping for fall vegetables. Feel free to contact any agents for fall programming or questions.
Cooperative Extension staff had the opportunity to participate in the first in-person statewide conference post COVID on October 3rd-5th in Greensboro, NC. We look forward to bringing the knowledge we acquired back to the Granville County community.
Charissa M. Puryear County Extension Director
Agriculture
Bull BSE Test October 21, 2022
Granville County Cooperative Extension and Warren County Cooperative
Extension have planned a Bull Breeding Soundness Exam clinic for October 21, 2022 at the Granville County Livestock Arena, located at 4400 Cannady Mill Road in Oxford, NC. We do not have room for any more bulls to be tested. But if you are interested in learning what is involved in performing a BSE on a bull, come out to see and learn. The BSE clinic will begin about 9am and should be done around 3pm that day. We have about 25 bulls scheduled to be tested. Contact Kim Woods for more information.
Nickels for Know-How Referendum November 17, 2022
The Granville County Nickels for Know-How Referendum will be held on Thursday, November 17, 2022.
Mikayla Graham, County Referendum Chairman said 1 polling place has been established in the County. The polling location is:
The referendum is being held to let users and producers of feed or fertilizer decide if they wish to continue the self-assessment program. This program has been in place since 1948, and the law requires that a new referendum be held every six years.
A 2/3 favorable vote will mean that growers are willing to continue to assess themselves to support agricultural research and education. The assessment is fifteen cents per hundred pounds on feed and fertilizer produced in North Carolina.
The funds, about $1.4 million annually, are collected by the North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and then allocated by the NC Carolina Agricultural Foundation, Inc.'s 148 volunteer Board of Directors to support agricultural research and extension projects at North Carolina State University benefitting agriculture in North Carolina.
For more information on the referendum, please call your County Extension Office at 919-603-1350
Community
Charissa Puryear, recently became a member of the Oxford Rotary club. Shown to her right is Centennial President, Xavier Wortham and to her left, her sponsor, Harry Mills.
Family and Consumer Science
CONGRATULATIONS to FCS Agent Jennifer Brown!!
Proud moment for our Family Consumer Science (FCS) Extension Agent, Jennifer Brown (pictured far left). She was a member of the 30 for 30: Walk-a-Weigh Extension Collaboration program, which won National 1st Place Social Media Education Award at the National Extension Association of Family Consumer Sciences (NEAFCS) Annual Conference tonight. We will be starting up this program again in November.
Join us on October 18th at 10:00am at the North Granville Senior Center on Highway 15 in Stovall, NC for our 2nd Dining with Diabetes session, where we will be discussing Carbohydrates and Sweeteners.
NC Cooperative Extension - Granville County Center is a proud Triangle North Healthcare Foundation Partner in Health.
The Granville County Cooperative Extension Office is a 2022-2023 Healthy Living Grant recipient. This $2,000 funding will support Nutrition & Physical Activity with our Get Fit, Lose It program. Register now!
We are grateful for the support of Triangle North Healthcare Foundation and look forward to working together to help our community get healthy!
We are offering a monthly Lunch N' Learn workshop virtually on a topic of nutrition, health and wellness, chronic disease, etc. Join us for our workshops and receive handouts, recipes and
lots of good information each month.
For more information about FCS Programs
use the links below to visit the program Facebook page or email FCS agent, Jennifer Brown.
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
REACH After School Program
4-H Youth Development
NC State Youth Market Turkey Show
Granville County 4-H was well represented at the NC State Youth Market Turkey show! All the participants worked hard the last 4 months to raise their turkey poults into the beautiful turkeys that they exhibited on October 6th.
NC State University and N.C. A&T State University
work in tandem, along with federal, state and local governments, to form a strategic partnership called N.C. Cooperative Extension.
