Agriculture

While fighting for a key seat in the U.S. Senate,  Democrat Jack Conway and Republican Rand Paul met Thursday in Louisville at the Kentucky Farm Bureau's Measure the Candidate meeting.

Conway and Paul discussed a number of issues raised by KFB, including health care, free trade and immigration.

John Wills, vice president of the Shelby County Farm Bureau, said he was impressed with the candidates. The forum was open only to media and state directors, but Wills watched one of the several broadcasts during the weekend.

During a time when Shelby County farmers are normally fighting a drought, they are now fighting severe storm damage and too much water.

Storms swept through the region early Saturday morning and again Saturday evening, dropping a total of about 3.5 inches of rain and leaving several farmers from Eminence to Southville with crops heavily damaged by wind and hail.

Sixty-five goats and counting. That is the number of goats that Howard “Cadle” Shelburne and his wife, Joann, have on heir farm outside Simpsonville. 

“This is just a hobby,” Shelburne says. “My wife just won’t get rid of them. Yep, it is a very expensive hobby.”

Still basking in the glow of seeing eight more titles added to the Golden Creek Farm roster, Mary Gaylord McClean was asked if winning at the World Championship Horse Show ever gets old.

“No, it just gets better,” she said.