Items by Emily Spencer | Extension Associate
2025 Kentucky Legislative Session Update for Kentucky Farmers
By Emily Spencer | Extension Associate
Published on May. 30, 2025
The 2025 session of the Kentucky General Assembly concluded on Friday, March 28th. There were 533 Senate, and 907 House bills and resolutions introduced of which 50 Senate and 96 House bills became law.
2023 Kentucky Vegetable & Fruit Input Costs: Changes and Trends
By Emily Spencer | Extension Associate and Tim Woods | Extension Professor
Published on Oct. 30, 2023
Prices for many crop inputs have increased steadily since 2016. This report updates 2023 Kentucky price trends for key vegetable and fruit crop inputs: fuel and fertilizer, labor, plant protection products, and seed.
Specialty Crop COVID-19 Response Project
By Emily Spencer | Extension Associate
Published on Sep. 28, 2020
USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), along with the cooperating research team led by the University of Kentucky’s Dr. Tim Woods, Dr. Lilian Brislen, and Dr. Jairus Rossi, seeks to enrich existing efforts within local and regional food systems (LRFS) communities of practice who provide essential support to our nation’s producers.