HODGENVILLE, Ky. — A warm winter in LaRue County has left henbit flowers to flourish, spattering empty crop fields with a purple harbinger of spring. From the front seat of his pickup, Ryan Bivens ...

It's been 20 years since the tobacco quota, which guaranteed prices for the crop, was outlawed. Since then the number of farms growing tobacco in Kentucky has shrunk by 96%. Twenty years ago today, ...

I am grateful to Connor Giffin for the recent story in the Courier Journal titled Kentucky losing famers and farmland at a rapid clip – at what cost? It is a sad story. Extremely sad because the story ...

Workers set hemp clones at a farm in Owen County, Ky., on Thursday, June 22, 2023. Kentucky had 69,425 farms in 2022, down from 75,966 in 2017 and 86,541 in the 2002 census. Ryan C. Hermens ...

Historic floods delay planting, impacting crop yields and profitability Farmers may shift planting from corn to soybeans amid trade war uncertainties Flooding forces costly field repairs, reducing ...