Are you known for your liberal use of duck tape? Have you literally made a silk purse out of a cow's ear or rather designed a tool that you can't do without? This is your kind of contest!!!
At the Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Growers Conference in Lexington last week Dr. Terry Jones from UK gave a great presentation on equipment for small farms and older farmers. Everyone laughed at his tongue-in-cheek suggestions (a 3-dog security system, for example) wrapped around some really great information about making your own equipment or modifying equipment to meet your needs. He challenged us to hold a contest to award the best designs.
We have taken him up on his challenge and are sponsoring a contest with three divisions - Things you made from scratch, things you modified to do something it was not designed to do, and, my personal favorite, the Dr. Terry Jones Not a Memorial Tongue-in-Cheek Award for fun ideas like the 3-dog security system.
This contest is so serious we have the College of Agriculture's Agricultural Biosystems and Engineering program serving as judges. (You remember these guys - they were the ones with the souped-up pulling lawn tractor that made it on a national TV program.)
We will be trying to get together cash prizes, but I can assure you you will have braggin' rights anyway. Pictures of all entries will be posted on the Ky Farmers' Market Association web site. So start taking pictures of your best ideas and we get more information to you soon.
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