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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]
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.
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 ...
A Kentucky horse farm. The equine industry in Kentucky is a major part of the state's agribusiness, including sectors involved in horse breeding and rearing, racing, buying and selling, and tourism. According to a study by the University of Kentucky, the equine industry contributed $3 billion to the state economy in 2012 and generated 40,665 ...
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 ...
A report on proposed changes to U.S. dietary guidelines suggests encouraging people to eat more beans and lentils for protein and less red meat. Updated guidelines are expected to go into effect ...
Extreme weather and a smaller supply of tree has pushed up prices, but this year consumers are getting break.
Isidore of Seville (560–636) distinguished between "cattle", a term for animals that had been domesticated, and "beasts" or wild animals, as did Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274). [17] The English jurist William Blackstone (1723–1780) wrote of domesticated animals, in Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765–1769):