Are GMOs Good or Bad?
Mention GMOs – genetically modified organisms – and you’ll likely hear a wide range of opinions. Some believe these plants and animals have great benefits to produce food and protect the environment. Others believe they hold potential risks and should be avoided. GMOs have been in use for many years. Despite the broad scientific consensus that they are safe to eat and safe for the environment, their use has generated plenty of public dialogue, questions and curiosity about the technology.
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Soy in Your Soles
Learn about two shoe brands that are using renewable soy in their products.
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Agriculture Job Outlook 2021
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics updated their Occupational Outlook Handbook on September 1, 2020, which included a list of the 20 fastest growing careers. Among those were several related to food and agriculture.
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Despite COVID-19, Kentucky agricultural receipts hold steady to 2019 levels
Agricultural economists from the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment are projecting 2020 farm cash receipts to be $5.5 billion, equaling 2019 receipts. The economists estimate that net farm income will likely exceed the $2.2 billion Kentucky producers earned in 2019.
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Tina Coil: Safe Food on our Tables
“I love seeing how food is made,” remarked Tina. “This is real life. I typically visit two facilities a week and they are all different. In the past month, I have visited a mining operation that provides minerals for animal feed, a dairy operation that makes dairy beverages, fruit juices and ice cream , a pepper sauce plant, and facilities that make fig bars and fish oil.”
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Are You Ready for the Truth About Antibiotic Use? The Evidence Is In
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released a report summarizing the sales of medically important antibiotics for agricultural use in 2018. There was a 21 percent decrease in sales from 2009, the first year of reported sales. The decline is even more significant when compared with 2015 – a 38 percent decrease according to the FDA report.
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Grant County Agriculture Students Talk Turkey, Literally
While there are differing stories about how turkey became a traditional food for the Thanksgiving holiday, students in Grant County High School’s agricultural program have made an annual turkey sale a tradition of their own at the school and in the community.
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Ag Career Profile: Taking a Chance on Agriculture
Learn how Dr. Quentin Tyler decided on a career in agriculture and is now encouraging others to do the same.
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The Ins and Outs of Animal Confinement
This is the second article in our series on what influences food choices. In September we addressed sustainability. This month we are going to tackle animal welfare issues, specifically confinement.
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Scott Christmas: Organizational Program Director
As the son of a well-known extension poultry science professor and researcher at the University of Florida, Scott knew he wanted a career in agriculture. He and his brothers were active in FFA, and they travelled to meetings all over the continent with their dad, Bruce Christmas, Sr. Scott had a solid understanding of agriculture issues and a passion for the industry.
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Carol Mackey Hinton: Agriculture Extension
While women had been in 4-H and Family and Consumer Science agent roles for quite some time, Carol was one of the first female Agriculture agents in Kentucky. She came from a farming family in Hardin County and studied Agriculture Economics – Farm Management at the University of Kentucky.
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Siblings open creamery for local ice cream, cheeses
Most people don’t start a new full-time career as they approach retirement age. But don’t tell that to brother and sister Terry and Sharon Rowlett. The Rowletts have undertaken s significant career move with the opening of Rowlett’s Milkhouse and Creamery.
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A Cut Above: Kentucky's meat industry faces latest challenge amid pandemic
Kentucky’s meat industry - like all others - have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a crisis that has heightened the anxieties of meat producers, sellers and consumers while also reminding them what they loved about meat in the first place.
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Agriculture is Sustainable
Mr. Warren Beeler discusses how Kentucky farmers are more sustainable than ever.
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Kentucky company finds niche in hemp
On a pleasant day in early August, Hempwood employees in Calloway County were sending round bales of hemp through the manufacturing process that turns hemp fiber into lumber.
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Seasonal food resource hub offers easy ways to use local veggies
“A lot of new people are exploring local seasonal eating for the first time, but there’s a learning curve when you get that weekly basket of fresh food. It can be daunting. We want to support people, so they feel comfortable and confident when working with local seasonal produce,” Brislen said.
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JRS Angus Farm
James R. “Buddy” Smith has been farming in the Bluegrass Region for more than 50 years. He is the 2020 Kentucky Leopold Conservation Award winner.
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Turner Family Farms
A land ethic was instilled in Mark Turner at a young age while helping his father on the family farm. When Mark took over Turner Farms, he saw the negative effects from the moldboard plow to the land. He decided to purchase a no-till drill in 1983. The farm now practices no-till and plants cover crops on every acre.
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Tallow Creek Farm
Nearly 1,330 acres of the property has a long history of logger choice harvest and occasional wildfire. This left mostly small-to-medium saw timber with a large percentage of low quality, less desirable species. The family has been working to improve timber quality through cull tree removal and mid-story removal for regeneration.
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Trunnell Family Farm
Achieving soil health through the use of no-till farming and cover crops is nothing new to Edward (Myrel) Trunnell, who began farming more than six decades ago. Conservation is synonymous with his idea of farming.
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