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Poster Contest Deadline Extended

Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer has announced that the deadline for submitting entries to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture’s Poster and Essay Contest has been extended to Feb. 19...more.

KDA News Center headlines

(1/26/10) Commissioner Farmer Warns Animal Owners to Prepare for Winter Storm Late This Week
(1/21/10) Beekeeping Schools Offered Across Kentucky
(1/15/10) New Farmers' Market Manual Now Available
(1/11/10) Kentucky Companies Form Statewide Network for Distributing Kentucky Proud Products
(1/4/10) Commissioner Farmer Saddened by Death of Longtime Pork Producers CEO Mike Ovesen
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KENTUCKY LIVESTOCK AND GRAIN MARKET REPORT:
January 29, 2010 (pdf)

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Coming up

Kentucky Quarter Horse Association Breeders' Seminar

American Grassfed Association Conference: Grazing America

Allen County Beekeeping School

National Farm Machinery Show

Pasteurization Short Course

Pasture-based Beef Finishing Workshop

Small Fruit Short Course

Southeast Beekeeping School

Northeast Kentucky Beekeeping School

Kentucky Alfalfa Conference

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Kentucky Proud's Strength is in its Diversity

Kentucky Proud is one of Kentucky’s greatest economic development success stories in decades...more.

Commissioner Farmer and the chefs who will participate in

Top: Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer, left, chats with some of the Kentucky chefs who will participate in "Cookin' in the Bluegrass: A Celebrity Chef Dinner Series" during the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games this fall. The names of the Kentucky chefs were announced in a news conference Jan. 14 at the Kentucky Proud Market in Lexington. (Ted Sloan photo.)

Middle: Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer speaks at a news conference to announce the Kentucky chefs who will participate in Cookin’ With the Chefs: A Celebrity Chef Dinner Series during the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games this fall. (Ted Sloan photo.)

Bottom: Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer, right, chats with First Lady Jane Beshear, second from right, and other guests at the announcement of the Kentucky chefs who will participate in Cookin’ With the Chefs: A Celebrity Chef Dinner Series during the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games this fall. The announcement was made in a news conference Jan. 14 at the Kentucky Proud Market in Lexington. (Ted Sloan photo)

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