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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Bill Estes of Lincoln County has won the 2006 Kentucky Dairy Quality Award, and Robey Farms of Logan County is the first Kentucky Dairy Production Award winner.
Estes and Robey Farms were among those honored during the annual Dairy Recognition Dinner Aug. 18 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville.
The Kentucky Dairy Quality Award is judged on industry quality standards and farm inspections. Estes received a monetary award and a farm-gate sign. Other finalists were James Roell and Jamie and Jason Howard, all of Fleming County. Previous winners were Tommy and Linda Marcum of Carter County (three times) and the Hord family of Tollesboro.
Robey Farms took top prize in the new Kentucky Dairy Production Award competition with a rolling herd average (the average weight of milk a herd produces in one year) of more than 29,000 pounds. Lee and Denise Robey and their three sons milk more than 900 cows. Eddie Klingenfus of Shelby County was second, and Rouse Farms of Mason County placed third.
District winners for the production award were Pennyrile Dairy, Christian County; Elkins Dairy, Warren County; Ken Mattingly, Barren County; Rocky Run Farm, Green County; Roger Corbin, Taylor County; Steve Young, Clinton County; Scotty Buckley, Anderson County, University of Kentucky Coldstream Farm, Fayette County; Jamie and Jason Howard, Fleming County; Eddie Gibson, Boone County; Jeff O’Daniel and sons, Marion County, and Bonnie and David Sammons, Hart County. The production awards were sponsored by the Kentucky Dairy Development Council.
The outstanding Kentucky exhibitor at the Kentucky State Fair was Louis Trauth Dairy of Newport. The outstanding overall exhibitor was Purity Dairy of Nashville.
The Dairy Promotion Award went to J.C. Williams, a retired dairy farmer from LaRue County. The Culinary Sweepstakes Award winner was Robin Mann of Shepherdsville.
Some 175 dairy producers and industry representatives from throughout the Commonwealth attended the dinner, which honors the individuals and groups that produce, process and promote Kentucky’s high-quality dairy products. The dinner was sponsored by the Dairy Products Association of Kentucky, the Kentucky Dairy Development Council and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.
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