Kentucky Ag News
Vol. 6 No. 12 • July 17, 2013
Comer unveils 'Udderly Kentucky'
“Udderly Kentucky” milk is 100% sourced from Kentucky dairy farms and 100% processed in Kentucky. In addition, a 7-cent-per-gallon premium will be returned directly to every participating Kentucky dairy farmer.
Long-awaited good news for Ky. dairies
Agriculture Commissioner James Comer explains the "Udderly Kentucky" project and how it will help Kentucky's dairy farm families. (audio)
Comer hails hemp vote, says still more to do
Agriculture Commissioner James Comer cheered passage of legislation to allow university research on industrial hemp. The measure was an amendment to the farm bill that passed in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Online voting open for Local Food Hero
Seed Capital Kentucky, in conjunction with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and Louisville Metro Government, has created the first Local Food Hero Award to raise awareness of the farmers responsible for growing the food we eat.
Kentucky retail food prices drop 3.1 percent
The latest Marketbasket Survey, conducted by the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation in June 2013, indicates that average retail food prices in supermarkets across the state decreased noticeably during the second quarter of the year.
Goat Browsers will eat your problem weeds
Al Dilley of Glasgow has been told he is the only person in the state using goats to clear hard-to-mow weeds and brush.
Former farm became site of UK's growth
Driving down Nicholasville Road these days, past UK’s campus near the Chandler Medical Center, it’s hard to believe that the College of Agriculture, Food and Environment's research farm was once located there.
GOAP to host conference in October
Registration for the 2013 GOAP Conference is now open. The conference will be held Wednesday, Oct. 30 at the Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green.
UK breaking down production barriers
Researchers in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment are hoping they can help increase yields by breaking down a hard layer in the soil called the fragipan.
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- Field to Fork Festival
- Kentucky Artisan Center at Berea 10th Anniversary Celebration
- Eastern Kentucky University FFA Field Day
- Floyds Fork public meeting
- Kentuckiana Dairy Exchange
- Livestock Investigation Training I
- ABAK/KyFGA summer meeting
- Woodland Owners Short Course
- Kentucky State Fair
- Kentucky Fall Grazing School
Coming up
Kentucky Farm Fact
- Kentucky dairy producers took in an estimated $220 million from sales of milk in 2012, according to the Kentucky office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service.
