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Reining In Abuse: Lax Laws On Animal Welfare Affect Pets And People
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Suzanna Johnson is an education officer with the Heart of Phoenix Equine Rescue in Camner, Kentucky. Johnson is looking after a pregnant horse she rescued recently. “Be good,” she instructs the mare, named… Read More
Win For Wetlands: Program Helps Farmers Conserve More Flood Prone Land
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West Kentucky farmer Judy Wilson says her family is a bit of a sundry bunch. “We love the farm, but we also love all the nature,” she said. Wilson is… Read More
Hogwash: Farmers Fear Trump Trade Disputes Are Damaging Ag Markets
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Jimmy Tosh sells a lot of pigs. He is owner and CEO of Tosh Farms, Tosh Pork, and Bacon By Gosh, in Henry County, Tennessee, and has 84 contracted barns in the region where farmers… Read More
Drowning In Milk: Dairy Farmers Look For Lifelines In Flooded Market
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LaRue County, Kentucky, dairy farmer Gary Rock sits in his milking parlor, overlooking what is left of his 95 cow operation. “Three hundred years of history is something that a… Read More
Snookered: Pool Tournament Ban Has Seniors Wondering Who Calls The Shots
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Billy Hobby’s days are largely filled by two things: church and pool. “I play everyday, mostly,” Hobby said, sitting next to his wife, Barbara. “Well, I enjoy watching him play,”… Read More
Trade War Fears Have Ohio Valley Soy Growers Nervous
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China buys more than half of the soybeans grown in the Ohio Valley. So China’s threat this week to place a 25 percent tariff on U.S. soy means farmers would… Read More
Students Push As Lawmakers Ponder Gun Safety Bills
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In a recently released court video, Capt. Matt Hilbrecht of the Marshall County, Kentucky, Sheriff’s office testifies about his interrogation of Gabriel Parker, the 15-year-old accused of a mass shooting at… Read More
Uncertain Status: Immigration Changes Leave Some In Limbo
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With Congress in a heated immigration debate, the Ohio Valley region is adding to its immigration courts. Sources within the Justice Department say Kentucky will have a new immigration court… Read More
Feds Deny Poultry Industry Request To Increase Work Speed
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has denied a petition by the National Chicken Council to remove the speed limit on work at some slaughterhouses, a move that food safety advocates are calling a victory… Read More
Farmers Fond of Trump But Growing Nervous About Trade
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When President Trump spoke to the American Farm Bureau annual convention this month he focused on the regulatory rollbacks and tax cuts that motivated many farmers to help vote him… Read More
“Poverty Tour” Brings United Nations Expert To Ohio Valley
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Law professor Philip Alston is a United Nations expert on extreme poverty. In his position as a U.N. Special Rapporteur he reports on places where pervasive poverty and human rights issues intersect, places such… Read More
Serving Those Who Served: Veterans Pantry Program Reaches Out To Hungry
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Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach; troops must be fed in order to fight. But what happens when that army faces hunger after marching back home?… Read More
Gutting Guest Worker Rights: Migrant Labor Bill Cuts Protections
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Roberto Gonzales and six other workers came from Nayarit, Mexico, to work on a Garrard County, Kentucky, tobacco farm using a guest worker program called the H-2A visa. The Department of… Read More
Report Reveals Contaminants In “Legal” Water
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An environmental group’s new report shows a broad range of contaminants occur in many drinking water systems in the Ohio Valley, even though the water meets federal requirements. The research… Read More
High Hop(e)s: Craft Brewing Has Farmers Betting On Hops
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The acres devoted to growing hops doubled in the U.S. in just the last five years and the trade group Hop Growers of America estimates that 95 percent of that… Read More
Nuclear Option: Officials Hope Old Facility Can Fuel Growth
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Paducah, Kentucky, is home to USEC, a Department of Energy uranium enrichment facility that operated for 50 years until being decommissioned in 2013. Just across the Ohio River lies the… Read More
Growing Hazards: Safety Rules Often Don’t Apply To Farming…
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One of the Most Dangerous Jobs Jeanna Glisson has two lives: her life before August 20th, 2007, and her life after. That day is so vivid, Glisson can still hear… Read More
Growing Concerns: Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric Sows Anxiety In Agriculture
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On Nelson Key Road in Murray, Kentucky, lies a 30-acre tobacco farm and there sits the road’s namesake, Nelson Key himself. He’s just at the end of this year’s harvest,… Read More
High Hopes For Hemp
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Farmers throughout the Ohio Valley want to revive a crop that was once a staple in the region: hemp. After a ban that lasted more than half a century, the… Read More