Agriculture and Rural Development Overseeding Legumes in Bermudagrass Pasture Demonstration: A demonstration plot was planted on the Stan Mannschreck Farm to take a look at different legumes planted into bermuda-grass in order to save money on nitrogen fertilizer. Caddo County Cattlemen Meeting Features Wind Power: The October Caddo County Cattle-men’s Association hosted an educational meeting to discuss contracts and leases for wind power farms in Caddo County. A large crowd came to hear Dr. Shannon Ferrell, OSU Professor of Agri-culture Law talk about the issues that could affect land owners. Commodity Marketing Course Begins at Carnegie: 10 agriculture producers from the Carne-gie area have enrolled in the Commodity Marketing Course “The Basics of Commodity Market-ing”. Dale Beerwinkle of the Caddo-Kiowa Technology Center and myself are teaching the 7 week course which started on October 27th. Caddo County Building Authority: In order to take a look at the Caddo County jail overcrowd-ing issues the Caddo County Building Authority met on October 27th. This was the first meeting of the group since the 3/4 cent sales tax failed in 2007. The committee voted to meet again in January of 2009 at the Anadarko Community Library. NACAA 2010 Tulsa Planning Meeting: A meeting was held of the NACAA 2010 Committee Chairs to continue plans for hosting 1200 Agriculture Agents and their families in July 2010.

David L. Nowlin, Ext. Educator, Agric., 4-H, & CED

Monthly Report for

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Family and Consumer Sciences

OHCE Fall Council meeting was attended by thirty-six women from across Caddo County. Susan Routh, Grady County FCS Educator presented a lesson “Holiday Shopping On-line.” In keeping with the theme of October which is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Dana McElroy, RT (R)(M), a Mammography Coordinator for Grady Memorial Hospital and Certified Breast Self-Exam Educator presented a very informative session on new developments and techniques in detecting breast cancer. Business meeting was conducted; officers were elected and generous donations were made to Caddo County Children First Program and the Ronald McDonald House in OKC. We had a surprise visit from “a bag lady” and her humor really served to lighten up our day.

Other Programming conducted in October: � Co-Parenting Class. � “Making Sense of Money Management” Seminar. � “An Apple a Day . . .” OHCE lesson in Stephens County. � Met with OHCE Yearbook Committee and selected leader lessons for 2009. � Participated in the Washita Valley Leadership Program’s Agriculture Tour. � Met with the Health Grant Coordinator at Riverside Indian School to plan nutrition and food preparation classes.

� Continued to work on the upcoming Women in Agriculture Conference. � Healthy Oklahoma Inservice. I presented the Bones in the Farm to Table Display.

Ranel Lasley, Ext. Educator , Family & Consumer Sciences

Caddo County OSU Extension Office / 201 West Oklahoma / Anadarko, OK 73005

405-247-3367

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4-H & Youth Development Caddo County 4-H Horse Judging Team Caddo County was well represented by 2 Junior Horse Judging Teams at the Morgan Nationals and World Championship Show that was held in Oklahoma City on October 10th. Team A placed 6th overall and Team B placed 7th. Caddo County 2007-2008 Award’s Banquet Several Caddo County 4-H members and volunteers were rep-resented at this year’s Award’s Banquet. Awards were given to the County Blue group that included; Trevor Percival, Hope Dyer, Kelsey Nowlin, Laken Lierle, Melissa Nightingale, Trent Williams, Grant Tho-mason, Shane McGlothlin and Kati Rose were recognized. The Hall of Fame Members are Hope Dyer of Ft. Cobb-Broxton and Trevor Per-cival from the Home School Club. National 4-H Week The week of October 6th-11th was National 4-H Week. Caddo County 4-H Clubs were encouraged to develop service projects that would benefit different people and groups throughout the week.

2008 South Western Youth Action Conference This month 33 Caddo County 4-H members attended the 2008 South Western 4-H Youth Action Confer-ence. This year’s theme was “4-H Centennial Vacation” as a kickoff to the year long celebration of 100 years of 4-H in Oklahoma. Youth attending the conference participated in District Elections and partici-pated in several leadership workshops. Two Caddo County 4-Hers’ ran for a district office. Trent Williams of Gracemont ran for Reporter and Grant Thomason of Anadarko ran and won the office of South West District Vice President.

Kevina Green, Ext. Educator 4-H & Youth Development

Contact Us Anytime! Caddo County OSU Extension Office Email Addresses;

David Nowlin; david.nowlin@okstate.edu

Ranel Lasley: ranel.lasley@okstate.edu

Kevina Green: kevina.green@okstate.edu

Web Site: http://countyext.okstate.edu/caddo

Caddo County 4-H Horse Judging Team (Back Row L-R) Tonya Caudill - Volun-teer, Meagan Matlock, Macayla Potter, Kevina Green - Coach (Middle Row) Madison Neugebauer, Sara Caudill, Kelsey Caudill (Front Row) Jeffrey Williams, Hunter Bean, Reagan Neugebauer, and John Caudill

4-H members from Lookeba-Sickles Jr. Club

sweep the parking lot of the Local Post Office.

4-H members from Lookeba-Sickles Jr. Club paint lines in the parking lot of the Local

Post Office.

2008 Youth Action Conference Delegates