Agriculture

In 2019, more than 8,300 immigrants with H-2A work visas were hired by about 780 Kentucky producers.

The Kentucky Restaurant Association says it submitted a proposal for reopening restaurants April 24, but hadn't heard back from Beshear.

The Louisville Metro Public Health Department received complaints in early April that employees were concerned the company was not doing enough to protect them.

In Kentucky, at least 200 workers in meatpacking plants have been infected, and one worker has died.

Alltech, the Kentucky agricultural company, has produced a video series about how coronavirus could affect food production and distribution.

As more growers jumped into the market, the price of CBD-rich hemp fell 75 percent in less than a year.

Direct payments to farms from the government are expected to total $22.4 billion, which is $8.8 billion higher than in 2018 — a 64% increase.

Hundreds of farmers across the Ohio Valley are finally getting to harvest thousands of acres of hemp, the first large crop since the federal government legalized hemp cultivation last December.

There’s still an “enormous” amount of risk growing hemp this year in part because of a lack of crop insurance and the learning curve to cultivate hemp for many hemp growers, a college official said.