KFB Second Vice President Sharon Furches sees many benefits of the annual Farm Bureau Congressional Tour. 

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CBOT futures closed sharply higher with corn, soybeans, KC wheat and Chicago wheat making new contract highs. Cattle futures closed lower and near the day’s lows following a late day sell-off as equity markets fell and grain prices rallied. Lean hog futures closed sharply lower after setting some new contract highs soon after the market opened this morning. 

The efforts our volunteer members make for this organization and their respective communities is beyond comparison. They are the main reason we are successful.

And in thinking about their many contributions, my mind immediately went to those still recovering from the detrimental tornadoes that swept through our state last December.

The tornadoes that swept through the state late December 10 and the early morning hours of the next day will never be forgotten, especially by those in the hardest-hit areas. The community of Bremen in, Muhlenberg County was one of those.

The devastation left behind by the historic storms and tornadoes that moved through many areas of Kentucky in the late hours of December 10 and early morning of the next day was beyond anyone’s imagination until daybreak and the awful truth unfolded.

It’s been nearly two months since the residents of western and central Kentucky were hit with the widespread severe weather of last December. Those historic storms left a visible path of destruction and monumental damage across large swaths of our state right before the Christmas holiday.