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“They learn cooking skills, handling the knife safely, food safety, how to read a recipe and nutrition facts. They even learn about the calories they consume and the physical activity they need to do to burn those calories up.” Debra Cotterill UK Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences i

“Pot-in-pot production is a relatively new type of production technique for nursery containers." Dava Hayden UK Extension Nursery Crops Associate

“We should be beyond the real peak of activity at this point." Lee Townsend UK Entomologist

The lump-sum option requires the quota holder or tobacco producer to enter into an agreement with a private party, such as a bank, to receive the payment from them (not the government agency issuing the buyout payments) in return for the rights to future payments.

“It is very important to be ready today and to know who to rely upon in case you need information." Jose Tadashi Yorinori Leading soybean rust expert from Brazil

With this system, the farmer just jumps in his tractor and goes. He doesn’t even have to think about it. He would just plant like he normally would, and the microcontroller network controls everything.” Brandon McDonald

Last week we had 60 students from Wilmore come through. We lined them up in the garden and showed them that vegetables don’t come wrapped up in cellophane at the grocery store. I like to pull something from the ground and watch their eyes light up and tell them that’s where carrots come from.” Ra

“Significant rainfall provided by the remnants of Hurricane Dennis for the past seven days improved Kentucky's hydrologic and agricultural moisture situation for most of the state." Tom Priddy UK Ag Meteorologist

"We’re about to see the warmest conditions we have seen in two years." Tom Priddy UK Ag Meteorologist

“We’re really proud of these students. They are determined to make each design better than the one before, and their efforts are really apparent with this unique tractor.” Scott Shearer Design team advisor and UK Biosystems and Ag Engineering faculty member.