News Archive: Agricultural Economics
Grant to empower women farmers, improve child nutrition in Ghana
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Katie Pratt
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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
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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
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Roberta Meisel
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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
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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
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Katie Pratt
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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
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Carol Lea Spence
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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.
Cattle market prices down from 2014, but still historically high

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Aimee Nielson
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Market is still strong.
UK economic study snaps agriculture’s bigger picture
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Carol Lea Spence
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A new CEDIK study has found agriculture’s total impact on Kentucky’s economy equaled $45.6 billion in 2013, an 8.3 percent increase over 2007.
Food Connection at UK introduces producers, processors to new UK Dining
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Carol Lea Spence
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The Food Connection at UK hosted a one-day workshop to connect Kentucky food producers with the new Aramark-managed UK Dining.