Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles announced today that voluntary “ag tag” donations in the 2017 fiscal year that ended June 30 amounted to $629,865.43, setting a record for the largest amount donated since the program began.

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An update on the spread of the spotted wing drosophila in Kentucky which was spotted about five years ago, and is now beginning to have impacts on production of small fruits here like blackberries, blueberries, strawberries and grapes.  UK Entomologist, Ric Bessin, says this is now a pest that producers will have to deal with on a regular basis. 

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 A feature story with Jacob Call, Master Distiller/Operations Manager for O.Z. Distillery in Owensboro which has been awarded an ag development loan and some state and county funding to develop a cattle feedlot that will utilize their company’s processing by-products to feed their cattle.

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 A feature story with Jacob Call, Master Distiller/Operations Manager for O.Z. Distillery in Owensboro which has been awarded an ag development loan and some state and county funding to develop a cattle feedlot that will utilize their company’s processing by-products to feed their cattle.

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UK is involved with a joint project with the University of Tennessee, developing TreeSnap, a new free mobile app designed to connect scientists with foresters, landowners and interested citizens in an effort to protect and restore the nation’s trees.

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In continuing its long-standing support of the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s Research and Education Center at Princeton, the Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation’s (KFBF) Board of Directors voted, during its last meeting, to donate a total of $1 million to initiatives at the facility’s new Grain and Forage Center of Excellence.

A report on Ky Farm Bureau President, Mark Haney’s, appearance before the Senate Ag Committee in Washington where he presented testimony for the American Farm Bureau, specifically on the upcoming new farm bill.  Haney says elements of the current Ky Farm Bureau Farm Bill Working Group were contained in his comments. 

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