“I grew up on a family farm where we grew tobacco, along with some row crops when I was younger,” she said. “One of my big projects growing up was taking care of the bottle calves we had."

The agriculture economy relies heavily on the production of crops and all the moving parts that surround commodities from the field to the bank. Each year, the USDA's National Agriculture Statistics Service (NASS) releases a national planting intentions report and individual state reports.

It has been a year since Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) announced the creation of the Kentucky Farmland Transition Initiative (KFTI) to help get us on a sustainable path to ensure our farmland remains in agricultural production.

There is likely no more exciting time for sports enthusiasts than basketball season in March.

As the planting season begins in earnest, farm families across the state are hard at work preparing for what they hope is a productive season including Kentucky Farm Bureau’s (KFB) Farm Woman of the Year (FWOY) Kori Thomas and her husband, Micah.

One year ago, the Kentucky Farmland Transition Initiative (KFTI) was launched by the Kentucky Farm Bureau (KFB) to address the loss of the state’s farmland.

When I moved to Kentucky a couple years ago, people often asked two questions: (1) “Where are you moving from?”, and (2) “What do you do?”