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Junior Camp Day 3: It was a sweaty hot one! We had the 4-H Rodeo, where we had 4 of our event winners from Montgomery County; Jaxon was the Steer Roping winner, Eli was the Barrel Racing Winner, Inayah was the Pole Bending Winner and Delaney was the Bull Fighting Winner. ( No real bulls or livestock were on site, just teens pretending!) We also had the camp crawl where karaoke and line dancing were popular picks!

July is packed with fun Family & Consumer Science Classes! Use the following link to register: tiny.utk.edu/fcsregistration

Adult Beginner Crochet Class: Make a Square Coaster
Tuesday July 14th at 10am.
Fee is $20 and all supplies are included.

Adult Beginner Sewing: Make a Tote Bag
Friday July 17th at 9am
Fee is $25, all supplies are included (bring your own machine if you would like)

Adult Water Bath Canning: Make Peach Jam
Thursday July 23rd at 1pm
Fee is $30, you will get to take home a finished jam

Adult Biscuit Making: Make Homemade Biscuits
Monday July 27th at 10am
Fee is $10

Adult Pressure Canning: Make Seasoned Potatoes
Friday August 14th at 4:30pm
Fee is $30, you will get to take home finished seasoned potatoes

Contact Family Consumer Science Agent Samara Johnson if you have any questions; email: [email protected] or Call: (931) 648-5725

Alisha, Eleanor, and Lisa are headed to 4-H Junior High Academic Conference on the campus of UT Knoxville. Alisha will be serving as a Conference Assistant Teen Leader, Eleanor earned her trip with her Consumer Education/Entrepreneurship 4-H project, and Lisa earned her trip with her Vet Science 4-H project.

Swim time was very popular! It’s reallll humid down at camp!

Some group shots from meal time and county meetings before bed!

Capturing some candids from this morning.

The Montgomery County 4-H Horse Program was well represented by Jo-Ella, Ava and Jocelyn at the Western Region 4-H Horse Show! As a Western Region 4-H Horse Ambassador Jo-Ella and her Dad were a huge help with the hunter show, setting up jumps, opening gates. Then helping handle goats for goat tying. Jocelyn competed her her first 4-H Horse and did a great job with her Morgan Horse, Hawk! Ava did a great job Friday placing 5th out of a huge class of Dummy ropers. Today her quarter horse mare,Nova was 2nd in Aged Halter mares and her gelding,Julio was the winner of aged geldings! She also won her Ranch pleasure class with her paint, Julio!

Producers in Montgomery and Cheatham County are eligible to apply for 2026 Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP) benefits on [small grain, native pasture, improved pasture, annual ryegrass, forage sorghum.]
Grazing acres must be certified with your local FSA office by July 15, 2026, if not already reported.
LFP provides compensation if you suffer grazing losses for covered livestock due to drought on privately owned or cash leased land or fire on federally managed land. If pasture is leased a Lease Agreement form CCC-855 has to be signed by both parties by the lessee and landowner.
CCC0855_190912V02.pdf
To assist in gathering livestock inventory for applying attached is a livestock inventory worksheet.
2026 Montgomery LFP Worksheet Fillable.pdf
County committees can only accept LFP applications after notification is received by the National Office of qualifying drought or if a federal agency prohibits producers from grazing normal permitted livestock on federally managed lands due to qualifying fire. You must complete a CCC-853 and the required supporting documentation no later than March 1, 2027, for 2026 losses. Please contact the Montgomery/Cheatham County USDA Service Center at (931) 368-0252 ext. 2
For additional information about LFP, including eligible livestock visit fsa.usda.gov.
https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDAFARMERS/2026/04/27/file_attachments/3630242/CCC0855_190912V02.pdf

https://content.govdelivery.com/attachments/USDAFARMERS/2026/05/04/file_attachments/3638590/2026%20Montgomery%20LFP%20Worksheet%20Fillable.pdf
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USDA Issues Second Supplemental Disaster Payment to Farmers, Extends Program Application Deadline to August 12
USDA Issues Second Supplemental Disaster Payment to Farmers, Extends Program Application Deadline to August 12
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)is maximizing disaster assistance support for producers by issuing a second Supplemental Disaster Relief Program (SDRP) payment to eligible producers who have approved program applications for losses due to natural disasters in calendar years 2023 and 2024.

USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) has already provided $6.7 billion in SDRP payments to eligible producers. Additionally, USDA is extending the program deadline to give producers and FSA more time to address any program application changes that could impact payments. The original April 30 deadline has been extended to Aug. 12, 2026, for SDRP Stage 1 and Stage 2.

Initial SDRP payments were factored at 35%, but after further analysis, USDA is increasing the payment factor to 70%, meaning producers with approved applications will receive an additional 35% of their calculated SDRP payment. Future SDRP payments will also be made using a 70% payment factor.

SDRP Stage 1
The first stage, announced in July 2025, remains available to producers who received an indemnity under crop insurance or the Noninsured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) for eligible crop losses due to qualifying 2023 and 2024 natural disaster events.

SDRP Stage 2
Stage 2 of SDRP covers eligible crop, tree, bush and vine losses that were not covered under Stage One program provisions, including non-indemnified (shallow loss), uncovered and quality losses.
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