KFB Second Vice President Sharon Furches says the Generation Bridge Program is empowering a new wave of ag leaders.

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Mark Haney announced today that he is stepping away from his role as president of Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) in December. Haney is the longest serving president in the organization’s history.

Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Ryan Quarles honored Kentucky’s farmers and proclaimed Sept.17-23 as Farm Safety and Health Week in Kentucky at a Farmer’s Appreciation and Awards Day on the Capitol Lawn Wednesday.

KFB First Vice President Eddie Melton says rural roads and bridges need an influx of funds for needed improvements.

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Pilot Oak, Kentucky is a very small community in southern Graves County. And while it may seem like a different world there from the hustle and bustle of Washington, D.C., the looming deadline to pass the next Farm Bill draws the two places closer than ever as farm families in this community and thousands of others advocate for programs contained in this legislation.

Along the Perry, Letcher, and Knott County lines, deep in the Appalachian Mountains of Eastern Kentucky, lies a 3,500-acre stretch of public and privately owned land once used as a surface mine that is being transformed into an open-range sheep farm.

For those of us on the farm or connected to the agriculture industry, we have been keeping a close watch on the movement toward a new Farm Bill. This all-important agriculturally related legislation serves as the cornerstone of ag and nutrition programs and is reauthorized every five years.

Let me start this column by saying I am blessed beyond measure to be able to do what I do, working with the very talented people I do, and traveling across the state visiting with some of the hardest working folks anywhere.