Please complete and submit applications to the KFB state office no later than October 14, 2016.

Corn, wheat and soybean futures closed higher and near the day’s highs. Futures firmed up on Sunday evening and then weakened overnight.  Cattle futures closed higher, finding support from the August LC contract’s steep discount to last week’s cash trade near $117/cwt. 

KFB Candid Conversations presents a discussion about the topical issues facing the agricultural industry. 

Passage of the National Biotech Disclosure Bill did not come without concessions and won’t have everything all sides in the issue had hoped for, but it will have something they can work with.

Increased interest in locally sourced foods has provided a growing market for small farms selling produce directly. 

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Normally, KCARD, the Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development features a success story of a budding new entrepreneur who has utilized their services to get started and to keep going.  KCARD Executive Director, Aleta Botts, explains why their last issue did not have a feature story.  They wanted to drive home the point that often, the new businesses would prefer not to make public their challenges and tribulations, and KCARD is just fine with that.

The second of three “woodland owner short courses is on tap for July 30 in Breathitt County at UK’s Robinson Center for Appalachian Resource Sustainability. UK forester Billy Thomas describes some of the program details and the very practical impact on land owners in developing their own ‘custom’ plan to manage their acreages.

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