Commissioner Farmer unveils bold agenda.

Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer laid out an ambitious legislative agenda at the 88th Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation annual meeting in December in Louisville. ... more

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Kentucky faces many challenges.  Commissioner Farmer's legislative agenda for the 2008 session is aimed at taking on some of these challenges:

 

*  Establish a statewide policy for on-farm water retention.

*  Expand Kentucky Proud.

*  Improve funding for KDA's consumer protection functions.

*  Support the "25 X '25" initiative.

*  Maintain the appropriation of 50 per cent of Kentucky's master tobacco settlement funds to Kentucky agriculture.