LPJ Extension

Fabulous day in South Georgia touring some impressive ag operations! Premium Peanut is the largest peanut shelling plant in the world located right in Douglas, Georgia! Lewis Taylor Farms boasts thousands of acres of produce, trees and crops and is a model of innovation and modern farming! UGA Extension UGA Research Premium Peanut Lewis Taylor Farms

We finally have the Barkaloo Rich building back! It’s been a long time coming! It is beautiful and we are delighted to have this space functional again! We dedicated it at the 4-H agents conference and they were the first ones to get to use it! 🍀❤️🍀

Alumnae and current Associate Dean for Extension, Dr. Laura Perry Johnson, will retire this spring after more than 35 years of service to the state of Georgia and the UGA College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Johnson has been especially passionate about 4-H Project Achievement in the Veterinary Science Category and the Pineywoods Farm Scholarship, a fund created by her father in 2007 to provide annual scholarships to CAES students.

Register to attend the Athens, GA retirement celebration here: https://tinyurl.com/2jh8r8h6

Register to attend the Tifton, GA retirement celebration here: https://ugeorgia.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_25ZxFbiRRPNSJ82

Honor her legacy by supporting the Pineywoods Farm Scholarship or Georgia 4-H here: https://tinyurl.com/yc85c4nh

What an immensely wonderful group of Extension leadership graduates we have!❤️

Ready for summer and some nice juicy peaches?🍑

Growers hopeful 2024 peach season will rebound from disastrous 2023 Last year, the peach industry lost $60 million due to the late freeze that hit much of the Southeast in mid-March 2023, said Jeff Cook, University of Georgia Cooperative Extension agent for Peach and Taylor counties. With no freezing temperatures in the forecast and hope for strong pricing during th...

This is a great story! Check out Thompson Farms pork!

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Andrew Thompson started Thompson Farms more than 20 years ago alongside his father, Raymond Thompson. He saw a need for good quality meat, raised the old fashioned way- on pasture, with less stress. What he found in the grocery store wasn’t cutting it so he set out to find a way to do it himself. God gave him a passion in his heart and the determination to do something about it.

He raised hogs on pasture and built a harvesting center and processing facility right there on the farm so the pigs didn’t have to be transported. They learned how to foster biodiversity, excellent animal welfare and to harvest and process the meat with minimal waste. Years later, the farm has expanded but the values are still the same.

Today, he continues to run the family business with his sister (Donna), his son (Bayly) and a team of talented butchers.

The term “know your farmer, know your food” is very true when it comes to our farm because the guy who started it all was a pig farmer out there with the pigs every single day. He is self taught in the craft of butchering pork. He knows the process from start to finish bc he’s had a hand in it all.

That’s something you won’t get from the big brands. They spend millions of $$$ on pretty packaging and marketing to convince you that their product is “clean”, “all natural”, “sustainable” and “farm raised”. But the truth is, the CEO probably isn’t feeding their product to his own children!

If you want quality meat.. FIND A FARMER!

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Nice day for celebrating! ❤️🖤❤️Congratulations to our Argene Claxton and Bill Branch, the newest members of Georgia’s Ag Hall of Fame! Two great men!

Amazing!!!🍀🍀🍀Thank you for all of the support for a wonderful organization!!!❤️

Thank you, Georgia 4-H! Because of your overwhelming generosity, all 159 Georgia counties received at least 14 gifts yesterday. Our giving goal was met before 3pm, and your support will provide more than $107,000 for county 4-H programs all over the state. We are so grateful for every single person who donated, shared, and celebrated with us during $4 for 4-H 2024. More details and exciting reports will be available next week on Georgia 4-H Foundation social media. 🍀❤

Very nice event to celebrate the University of Georgia research awards! Congratulations to all of our stellar scientists!

Wow!! What a day! We are only seven counties away from every county having a clover… Meaning, they got 14 gifts!

The 5pm update is in: 152 counties have earned a clover so far! Thanks to incredible generosity from the Georgia 4-H family, we have flown past our giving goal. We are excited to see what will happen this evening... 👀 Check in for a final update tomorrow! 🍀❤ www.georgia4h.org/four

Wow!! Impressive so far and still time to make it better!🍀🍀🍀

The entire state is GREEN! We are only $10,000 away from our goal, and 27 more counties need a cloverleaf. Thank you for sharing and thank you for giving! Your support makes a huge impact for 4-H'ers in Georgia.
Map data as of 1pm 🍀 Giving data as of 2pm

Help turn these counties green! If we all give four dollars it goes along way!🍀🍀

$4 for 4-H Map Update: 83 counties have already received four gifts! A cloverleaf indicates that a county has received at least 14 gifts. Thank you to everyone who has shared and supported. Help us reach four gifts for every county and our $74,444 goal at georgia4h.org/four.
Map data as of 9:30am, donation total as of 10:30am 🍀 Stay tuned for our 2pm update!