With the long Memorial Day weekend and summer travel season coming up, Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles reminds Kentucky motorists that Kentucky Department of Agriculture inspectors are on the lookout for credit card skimmers in motor fuel pumps across the Commonwealth.
Kentucky champion Harlan County High School was the runner-up among the state champion high school culinary teams from six states.
The Kentucky Department of Agriculture is working with the Kentucky State Fair and the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service to transport state fair exhibits to Louisville from five locations across the Commonwealth.
Kentucky Farm Bureau Insurance recently hosted an event to help raise money to fight the hunger problem in Kentucky.
Net cash farm income in 2017 was $1.58 billion, a 78.9 percent increase over the drought year of 2012.
Approximately 2,000 teenagers from across Kentucky and Indiana competed, networked and learned about the educational opportunities available in the UK College of Agriculture, Food and Environment.
Kentucky farmers expect to harvest 25.5 million bushels of winter wheat during 2019, which would be up 29 percent from the previous year.
All the grants will go toward enhancing learning opportunities for agriculture students.
The Kentucky Agricultural Development Board (KADB) recently approved $5 million for the Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation’s (KAFC) revolving loan programs.
Stephenson currently serves as assistant dean of extension and department chair of family and consumer sciences at the University of Tennessee.
