The 2009 Kentucky State Fair

Top left: Commissioner Farmer presents a check for $47,500 to Kentucky 4-H officers Friday. Top right: Commissioner Farmer speaks to 4-H members, volunteers, board members and other guests at the 4-H Breakfast. Middle left: Mary McCarty of the University of Kentucky uses a device to read a radio frequency identification tag in the goat's ear as the Kentucky Department of Agriculture's Lashley Williams, background, checks the readout on her laptop. Middle right: Commissioner Farmer presents a check for $47,500 to Kentucky FFA with help from Miss Kentucky Mallory Ervin. Bottom left: Chris Thomas of Campbellsville shows a dairy heifer. Bottom right: Whitney Core of Salvisa, right, is honored as the supreme champion dairy showman. (Photos by Ted Sloan)

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