Farm Fresh Days feature special restaurant dishes made with locally-sourced ingredients and much more: Kentucky Ag News for Monday, Aug. 16, 2021

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Vol. 14 | No. 16

Monday, Aug. 16, 2021

Farm Fresh Days feature special restaurant dishes made with locally-sourced ingredients

"Kentucky Proud Farm Fresh Days is a great way to heighten the awareness of Kentucky farm food offered at Kentucky Proud Buy Local restaurants," Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Ryan Quarles said of the 10-day culinary celebration Aug. 13-22. "Eating for a good cause has never tasted so delicious."

Quarles celebrates Farmers’ Markets Week with Double Dollars initiative

"The Kentucky Double Dollars Program helps ... make fresh local foods accessible to more Kentucky families,” Commissioner Quarles said.

State Fair to feature midway food made using Ky. Proud ingredients

"Our recipe for great food on the midway," said Kissel Entertainment President R.A.Kissel, "includes ingredients made from Kentucky Proud products."

Quarles traveling the state

to hear hunger concerns

"There’s a misconception that just because restrictions have been lifted that the need for helping food banks has diminished as well," Quarles said.

KDA helps farmers, businesses, manufacturers recover from pandemic

Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corp. approves $2.7 million in loans

Ky. farmers can make money leasing harvested fields to dove hunters

Pin Oak Stud to disperse majority of its stock at Fasig-Tipton mixed sale

Mosquitos carrying West Nile Virus found in Louisville

UK colleges of ag, nursing team up to address farmers’ mental health

UK student selected as U.S. representative to Global 4-H Network

UK professor receives Livestock Publications Council’s Headliner Award

Kentucky Ag Leadership Program accepting nominations until Sept. 1

Retired state apiarist to teach fall beehive management on Aug. 24

Ky. Ag Development Board to meet Aug. 20 at State Fair in Louisville

And just in case you missed it ...

450,000 bees removed from 35-year-old hive inside walls of farmhouse

Kentucky farm fact

One of the leading producers of hardwood forest products in the South, Kentucky exported $336 million worth of forest products in 2019, which ranked among the state’s top 10 agricultural exports.

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