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"If you’ve got a safe and healthy employee, then you’ve got a productive employee. In this thought process, you help your employees and do what you can to keep them safe. We’re giving them healthy choices and hope they take that home to their family.” Jeff Walters Performance Pipe

“My prediction is farmers will stay in business and they will figure out a way to do it, and I think it is important for crop advisers who assist farmers to help them decide where their fertilizer money is best spent." Greg Schwab UK Extension Soil Specialist

Topics will also include an update of the UK wheat breeding program and unique aspects of the UK wheat variety testing program. Polymer-coated urea and other nitrogen issues will be addressed along with the practice of growing wheat for straw.

“The fires in Kentucky usually burn close to the ground and, normally, do not kill the trees. The following spring the trees will leaf out again, giving the indication that no harm is done." Doug McLaren UK College of Agriculture Extension Forestry Specialist

Consumer demand and trade have been key factors in impacting the state’s livestock prices. Lee Meyer UK Agricultural Economist

“Good farm income coupled with a high level of USDA payments and high land values put Kentucky agriculture’s balance sheet in a very favorable context,” Craig Infanger UK College of Agriculture Economist