News by County

"Telecommunications offer a way for rural areas to be more competitive." Tom Rowley, research consultant

"Although many tobacco farmers think the float-bed system is easy and want everything to grow that way, it's difficult to adapt other plants to it." Bob Anderson, UK Horticulture Specialist

"The job of APHIS doesn't begin and end at our borders any longer." Michael Dunn, USDA Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Services

"For tobacco farmers looking for supplemental crops, this is a great conference." John Strang, UK Extension horticulture specialist

"This is the highest overall placing a Kentucky livestock judging team has had in at least 30 years." Monty Chappell, team coach and a 4-H Livestock specialist in the UK college of Agriculture.

The real issue with forest fires in Kentucky is the future dollar value lost in the trees by the land owner.

"Women are one-fourth of the world's rural population." Maxine Bell, Vice-Chair of the American Farm Bureau's Women's Committee

"We're seeing several indicators that people are paying more for beef with the supply being held constant." Lee Meyer, UK agricultural economist

"Good farm records, and timely analysis of those records, is important." John Anderson, UK Agricultural Economist