News by County

“With only 59 percent of normal rainfall received since May 1, the state is starting to suffer from lack of rainfall." Tom Priddy UK College of Agriculture Meteorologist

Dengue symptoms range from a severe, flu-like sickness to the form known as Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever (DHF) that can result in death. It is spread by mosquitoes that bite infected people and then carry the disease to non-infected people.

"I would say that anybody who wants some nutritious food, whether it be beans or tomatoes, just ought to go out and get some seed and try it. You will really be rewarded and you will get hooked on doing it. " Pat Biggerstaff

“Programs such as this help build friendships, they help families to stay together." Betty Overly UK Extension Family and Consumer Sciences Agent in Bourbon Co.

“When you start thinking about the different agencies – the emergency management, the police, the Army, the federal agencies – we don’t often get the chance to work together, and this gives us that chance.” Daniel Castle Winchester Fire Chief and President of the Bluegrass Emergency Response Team

“I’ve learned whenever we hit a snag how to go back and go around that and into another direction." Mildred Watson

“We’re trying to promote new recipe ideas, educational information about fruits and vegetables and healthier recipes. We have a different theme every time.” Rita Stewart UK Extension Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences in Lincoln Co.

Get Moving Kentucky! is a physical activity program of the Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service Health Education through Extension Leadership that encourages all Kentuckians to increase their physical activity.

“Grapes are a blossoming industry in Kentucky, and we would like to see it as an agricultural industry." Kaan Kurtural UK Extension Vitaculturist

“Right now, and until we have some indication that soybean rust has moved out of its current locations of central Florida and southwest Georgia, the prudent thing to do at this time is wait, watch and listen.” Don Hershman, Extension plant pathologist