With tax season upon us, you can “check the box” to join the fight to reduce hunger in Kentucky.
Share Our Strength’s No Kid Hungry campaign gathered anti-hunger advocates from across the country, including Kentucky, to look for ways to reduce hunger among children in rural communities during a national conference March 21-22 in Louisville.
The second annual Serving Up Solutions Dinner benefited Feeding Kentucky, Kentucky Hunters for the Hungry, and GleanKY.
H.H. Barlow III of Barren County was named executive director of the Kentucky Dairy Development Council (KDDC).
The KDA donated $5,000 from Ag Tag funds to sponsor the 2018 Kentucky Women in Agriculture (KWIA) Conference last October
The KDA donated $100,000 from the Kentucky Ag Tag program to the University of Kentucky (UK) Grain and Forage Center of Excellence in Princeton, Kentucky, which is scheduled to be completed in August.
Eastern tent caterpillars have begun to hatch, with the first instances being seen in Lexington on March 24, according to Daniel Potter, professor of entomology, University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
All women who are farmers, ranchers, farm/ranch employees, employed in agricultural businesses, pursuing ag-related higher education or supportive of agriculture in other ways are invited to participate.
Christian County farmers produced 12.8 million bushels of corn, while Henderson County soybean production totaled more than 5.4 million bushels.
The program aims to increase the number of minority students studying agriculture, food, natural resource sciences, and other agriculture-related disciplines.