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Dairy Producers in Kentucky Reminded to Obtain 2025 Dairy Margin Coverage by March 31

Lexington, Kentucky March 20, 2025 – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is encouraging dairy producers to enroll in Dairy Margin Coverage (DMC), an important safety net program that …

KFB teams with McConnell to save farmland

By Bobbie Curd The last Census of Agriculture shows alarming facts about Kentucky farmland – a loss of 17,000 farms and 1.4 million acres of farmland over the last 20 years. “Now …

Ag Commissioner Jonathan Shell gives opening remarks at the Shelbyville Ag as Community Development meeting.

Shell convenes meeting on ag as economic development

By Jimmy Henning SHELBYVILLE, Ky. – Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell convened an “Ag as Economic Development” regional meeting in Shelbyville on March 3. The …

Dr. Bhavna Tandon, Chief Scientific Officer at Brown Foods, unveils a test-tube full of UnReal Milk — the world’s first lab-made whole cow milk, at Brown Foods’ lab in Boston, MA.

Real vs ‘UnReal’ Will lab-grown milk disrupt dairy?

By: Bobbie Curd In February, a startup company in Boston announced it had created “the world’s first lab-made whole cow milk,” designed to match the taste and texture of real milk. Instead of …

Commissioner of Education Robbie Fletcher speaks with students from Creekside Elementary School in Hardin County during the Agriculture Education Week kickoff event at the Kentucky State Capitol Rotunda.
Photo by Joe Ragusa, Kentucky Department of Education

Celebrating agriculture in the classroom

By Robbie Fletcher Kentucky Commissioner of Education Getting the chance to speak with students involved in agriculture programs earlier this year, I saw just how eager students can be for education …

Italian ryegrass control field tour is March 27 in Princeton

For a second year, the University of Kentucky invites grain growers, crop advisors and the public to attend its 2025 Italian Ryegrass Control Field Tour on March 27 at the Caldwell County Extension …

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Forage Establishment

Have you ever heard the saying “You never have time to do it right, but you always find time to do it over.” My father said it to me often. You can imagine the context. In my defense, it …

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The state of soy

Serving as president of the American Soybean Association has been interesting at least and challenging at most, and I am only three months in! I was elected in December of 2024, and, as you all know, …

Together we grow: Reflecting on the last 30 years and paying it forward

I couldn’t imagine a more appropriate theme for National Ag Day 2025 than what the Agriculture Council of America chose, Together We Grow, especially for my current life season. Starting a new …

If it’s Tuesday, it must be another day of something

If it’s Tuesday, the White House’s long promised tariffs against Canada and Mexico are on again but if it’s Thursday, they–well, many that its Big Biz backers don’t …

Judging the church

I remember soon after I became a Christian I starting feeling a condemnation that I was suddenly supposed to do everything right. People would be watching me and I needed to be holy. It was a guilt …

GOP House hardliners again threaten Farm Bill

Even when Speaker of the House Mike Johnson finds enough baling wire to lash together the votes needed to pass the split, almost six-months late 2023 federal budget, it’s little more than a …

Pride in Ag Education