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North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) is a livestock show held each November in Louisville, Kentucky and lasts for two weeks. It is billed as the "world's largest all-breed, purebred livestock exposition", with nine major livestock divisions with competitors from the 48 contiguous states.
Before European-American settlement, various cultures of Indigenous peoples of the Americas lived in the region. The pre-colonization state of the Bluegrass is poorly known, but it is thought to have been a type of savannah known as oak savanna, with open grassland containing clover, giant river cane (a type of bamboo), and scattered enormous trees, primarily bur oak, blue ash, Shumard's oak ...
Nevertheless, Kentucky remains the United States' second-largest producer of tobacco. [2] Kentucky is the United States' #1 producer of horses. [2] The equine industry contributed $3 billion to the state economy in 2012 and generated 40,665 jobs. [11] Cattle are a billion-dollar-a-year industry. [1]
For four generations of the Miller family, showing dairy cattle in the Kentucky State Fair is a tradition rooted in hard work and responsibility. How one family keeps tradition alive for 4 ...
WHAT: Head to The Outlet Shoppes of the Bluegrass to kick off the holiday season. Santa, Mrs. Claus, Miss Kentucky, and a Life-Size Polo Teddy Bear will make a grand entrance in a horse-drawn ...
The Wilderness Road served as a great path of commerce for the early settlers in Kentucky, as well as for wagon-loads of slaves being transported through Tennessee to plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana. Horses, cattle, sheep and hogs herded in the other direction found waiting markets in the Carolinas, Maryland and Virginia. Hogs in ...
A North Carolina man recently pleaded guilty to federal charges of defrauding cattle markets in Cleveland County and beyond by writing bad checks. William Dalton Edwards, 25, of Mount Airy ...
Kentucky Farm Bureau's Bluegrass & Backroads is a television program produced by Kentucky Farm Bureau, based in Louisville, Kentucky. The half-hour program focused on interesting cultural, historical, and artistic aspects of the Bluegrass State. The program had several hosts and producers during its 14-season run.