David Stevens honored as the 2015 Sutton Landry State Star for Kentucky

By Roberta Meisel
Published on Sep. 22, 2015

Stevens was recognized at a private reception during the recent America’s Small Business Development Center Conference in San Francisco.

Small business is big business for federal contracts

By Roberta Meisel
Published on Aug. 4, 2015

Two workshops will help small-business owners learn more about government contracting.

Grants available to improve food insecurity for rural children

By Katie Pratt
Published on Jul. 31, 2015

Grant funds will help lower instances of child food insecurity in persistently poor rural areas in 15 states.

Community developers gather from around the world in Lexington

By Carol Lea Spence
Published on Jul. 28, 2015

CAFE and Lexington played host to community development experts from around the world, who met to discuss the roles of creativity and culture in the creation of strong communities.

Grant to empower women farmers, improve child nutrition in Ghana

By Katie Pratt
Published on Jul. 20, 2015

Three UKAg professors received a grant to help local female farmers in the African country sell their food to schools.

UK Ag Economics graduate student wins national teaching award

Published on Jun. 16, 2015

Jerrod Penn, ag economics doctoral student, will receive the 2015 Graduate Teaching Award of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association in July.

Kentucky celebrates small businesses

By Roberta Meisel
Published on May. 6, 2015

The commonwealth’s best were celebrated in the Capitol Rotunda with an awards ceremony recognizing outstanding small businesses and small-business people.

Nominations open for Kentucky Agricultural Leadership Program

Published on May. 4, 2015

Nominations are now being accepted for Kentucky Agricultural Leadership Program Class XI, a two-year program for ag producers and agribusiness people.

Ag gone mobile

By Katie Pratt
Published on Apr. 16, 2015

In Hopkins County, Curtis Dame is showing farmers how they can get production answers at their fingertips.

Collective minds address supply side of local food

By Carol Lea Spence
Published on Apr. 9, 2015

ES Good Barn was the site for the Bluegrass Barn Raising, a strategy meeting of farmers, processors, and distributors for expanding the supply of local foods to institutions.