Top left: The fast-moving log roll competition caps off the Lumberjack Show at the Kentucky State Fair. The Fair's newest show also features contests in pole climbing, speed sawing and axe throwing. (Kentucky State Fair photo) Top right:The 2006 Kentucky State Fair Grand Champion Country Ham was auctioned off at Thursday's Kentucky Farm Bureau Country Ham Breakfast. The ham, produced by Broadbent B&B Foods of Cadiz, sold for a record $500,000.00. Bottom left: Miss Kentucky Rachelle Phillips shows the 2006 Grand Champion Country Ham. (Ted Sloan photos) Bottom middle: Taylor Blandford, 10, of Springfield leads over 1,000 pounds of beef around the show ring. (Chris Aldridge photo)
Left: Commissioner Farmer speaks at the Kentucky Farm Bureau Ham Breakfast. (Ted Sloan photo) Right: For the third year in a row, Broadbent's B&B Food Products, of Cadiz, Kentucky, won the Kentucky State Fair's Country Ham competition. The ham weighed in at 17.26 lbs. and was bought by First Southern National Bank for a record $500,000 at the Kentucky Ham Breakfast and Auction, sponsored by Kentucky Farm Bureau. (Photo courtesy Kentucky State Fair)
Top left: Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer speaks to the crowd at the State Fair’s 4-H and FFA Sale of Champions beef cattle show in Broadbent Arena. Top middle: Cody Emmons, second from right, showed the grand champion steer at the 2006 Kentucky State Fair’s 4-H and FFA Sale of Champions. Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer is on the far left. Top right: Taylor Stevenson Tolle, second from right, showed the reserve grand champion steer at the 2006 Kentucky State Fair’s 4-H and FFA Sale of Champions. Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer is on the far left. Bottom left: Agriculture Commissioner Richie Farmer poses for a photo with members of Cumberland County’s Cattle Judging Club at the State Fair’s 4-H and FFA Sale of Champions. (Chris Aldridge photos) Bottom right:"Star Wars" icons (from left to right) Wickett, Chewbacca and Darth Vader paid a visit to the Kentucky State Fair to pose for pictures with fans of all ages, including these two fairgoers. (Photo courtesy Kentucky State Fair.)
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