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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Thursday announced the USDA Farm Service Agency has already approved more than $545 million in payments to producers who have applied for the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program. FSA began taking applications...

This week, the Cadiz Farmers Market returned downtown for the first time this year. Brenda Buchweitz, with Barkley Hills honey, says they are glad to be back downtown. Barkley Hills Honey offers a variety of local products...

A University of Kentucky researcher is part of an international team of scientists that have discovered how plants forget....

In the United States, about 40 percent of farmers are 65 or older according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s census. Kentucky reflects that demographic, so when the coronavirus started to emerge in the state, some farmers...

For Kentucky producers who could not make plans to attend the 2020 Beef Improvement Federation Symposium in Florida, good news — the meeting is now set to happen virtually on Zoom, and it’s free. “Kentucky producers will...

University of Kentucky grain crops specialists encourage grain growers to scout their fields for freeze and disease damage and determine the next steps for their crops....

Drones are an effective way to apply fungicides to corn facing disease pressure according to a University of Kentucky study....

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue Tuesday announced details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, which will provide up to $16 billion in direct payments to deliver relief to America’s farmers and ranchers impacted by the coronavirus...

Corn producers have the greatest chance of controlling foliar diseases and improving the crop’s stalk strength when foliar fungicide treatments are applied at the tasseling (VT) growth stage, according to a University of Kentucky study. “Foliar diseases...

The unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic has greatly affected many aspects of agriculture....