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The American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), more informally called the American Farm Bureau (AFB) or simply the Farm Bureau, is a United States–based 501(c)(5) tax-exempt agricultural organization and lobbying group. [1] Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Farm Bureau has affiliates in all 50 states and Puerto Rico. Each affiliate is a ...
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In Kentucky, farm employment makes up an estimated 0.7% of total employment, and the agricultural sector accounts for about 2% of Kentucky's GDP. [7] Agriculture as a percentage of the state's GDP has declined over time; in 1963 agriculture accounted for an estimated 5% of the state's GDP. [7]
Brownsboro Farm is located in northeastern Jefferson County. It is bordered to the southwest by Barbourmeade and on all other sides by Louisville. Interstate 71 forms the northern border, though with no direct access, while Kentucky Route 22 (Brownsboro Road) forms the southern boundary. Downtown Louisville is 10 miles (16 km) to the southwest.
The city was formally incorporated by the state assembly in 1884. [10] Long isolated by the surrounding mountains, Hazard was opened to the outside world by the arrival of the railroad in 1912. The only access to the valley had previously been 45 miles down the North Fork of the Kentucky River or a two-week trip over the surrounding mountains. [11]
U.S. Route 150 passes around the southern and western edges of the city, leading northwest 11 miles (18 km) to Stanford, the county seat, and southeast 13 miles (21 km) to Mount Vernon. Kentucky Route 39 passes through Crab Orchard as Main Street, leading north 12 miles (19 km) to Lancaster and south 28 miles (45 km) to Somerset.
Dry Ridge is a home rule-class city [4] in Grant County, Kentucky, in the United States.The population was 2,191 at the 2010 census, [5] up from 1,995 at the 2000 census.From around 1910 to 1960, the city's economy was dominated by business related to its mineral water wells, purported to have healing properties.
Fancy Farm is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Graves County, Kentucky, United States, [2] 10 miles (16 km) northwest of the county seat, Mayfield. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 403. [3] Fancy Farm is on Kentucky Route 80 in the rural, far-western portion of the state called the Jackson Purchase.