The University of Kentucky College of Agriculture will host their annual Winter Wheat Meeting at the James E. Bruce Convention Center in Hopkinsville.  Grains Center of Excellence Director Dr. Chad Lee discusses the topics that will be covered, the Wheat Science Award and how to register to attend the meeting.

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Thanks to a joint effort between the Kentucky Department of Agriculture (KDA), the state Finance and Administration Cabinet, the federal government, and Kentucky food banks, 314,496 meal kits from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) were shipped to Kentucky and used to help feed the hungry.

Price action continued the pattern seen Tuesday and Wednesday – soybeans dropping and corn/wheat rising. Market factors remain the same – beneficial South American weather as well as unfavorable weather and soil moisture in the Plains.  Cattle futures closed slightly higher, correcting part of yesterday’s losses. 

By Tim Thornberry

I remember Christmas Day, 1969 very well because it also turned out to be the day we moved to the farm. Understand, moving on that day was not on purpose or by design, but mostly because of one of the biggest snowstorms I had ever seen at that point in my life.

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Just under five hundred Ky farmers are headed to Nashville next month to attend the 99^th annual convention of the American Farm Bureau (Jan 5-10).  Feldhaus visits with Ky Farm Bureau President, Mark Haney, who discusses a few of the national issues that voting delegates will be discussing.

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The “Plate It Up Kentucky Proud” program has been designed by Kentucky Proud and the extension service to encourage the citizen to buy local foods and to eat healthier. One element of that is distribution of recipe cards at farmers markets to encourage smarter eating habits.  Jessica Houlihan on the faculty of UK’s Department of Dietetics and Human Nutrition explains how her students help develop recipes for this project.

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CRISPR stands for “clustered regularly interspaced palandromic repeats” and it is newly developed technology that can improve success rates in genetic engineering of plants and animals. Dr. Paul Vincelli, UK plant pathology professor, discusses that advancement, and he talks about his work in presenting the science behind the pros and cons of genetic engineering.

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