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Monday, September 23, 2024

Vol. 17 | No. 18

Commissioner Shell proclaims September

as Poultry Month in Kentucky

Poultry farmers and industry representatives joined Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell, second from right, Sunday at the Fall Market event at Hayden Farms in Daviess County to sign a proclamation declaring September Poultry Month in Kentucky. “Kentucky poultry producers are an economic engine for Kentucky,” Commissioner Shell said, noting there are more than 850 poultry farms and roughly 3,200 poultry houses in 50 counties, not to mention thousands of backyard flocks throughout the Commonwealth.

Kentucky poultry farm honored

for environmental stewardship

Sarah and Tyler Isbell raise more than 300,000 broiler chickens for Tyson Foods on their Graves County farm.

Red crown rot hits soybeans

in 3 far western Ky. counties

The disease, confirmed in Calloway, Carlisle, and Graves counties, causes yellowing and dead tissue in leaves.

Farmers and their occupation

honored in Bowling Green

Ag Commissioner Jonathan Shell, right, greets those in attendance at last week's Farmers' Appreciation and Awards Day.

More agriculture-related headlines in the news

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Commissioner Shell promotes CSAs in "Summer Grillin'" TV interview

Ky. Ag Development Board approves more than $2.4 million in projects

Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corp. OKs over $2.7 million in loans

Demand for cold storage heats up for Ky. fruit and vegetable farmers

Kentucky Farm Bureau president talks Farm Bill, loss of agricultural land

KDA joins Ky. Farm Bureau initiative to find solutions to farmland loss

Should Fayette Co. allow 384 acres of farmland to become a solar farm?

Kentucky’s Black farmers build sustainable local food systems

Dry weather hits Kentucky crops, impacts curing conditions for burley

UK secures grant to develop drone technology for cattle management

Ky. Soybean Board supplies preschools, Head Start with Crayon Rocks

Kentucky Bourbon Hall of Fame inducts five new members

Kroger-Albertsons grocery megamerger will harm workers, FTC claims

FDA recalls lactose-free milk in 27 states, including Kentucky

Milk price rules are one reason why U.S. dairy farms are disappearing

Wild ginseng is declining, but small-scale 'diggers' can help save it

Farmworker advocates urge ban of herbicide linked to Parkinson’s

Kentucky food businesses: Apply by Nov. 1 to get funding boost

Three-day national grazing conference to be Oct. 15-17 in Elizabethtown

26th annual Kentucky Poultry Festival coming up Oct. 4-5 in Lexington

Ky. Signature Industries Career Fair Sept. 26 to feature distilling, equine

Fall Ky. Intermediate Grazing School is Sept. 25-26 in Woodford County

Fall Vegetable Gardening class to be held Sept. 24 in Livingston County

And in case you missed it ...

South African farmers grow world's heaviest plum

Kentucky ag fact

Kentucky ranked 10th in the country last year for producing more than 277 million chickens raised for meat, called broilers. Broilers were the state’s second-largest agricultural commodity in 2023 with cash receipts of $1.43 billion, trailing only corn.

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