by Cassel Bear | May 9, 2024 | Agriculture, Berry Center, Farming, News
COURIER JOURNAL (APRIL 11, 2024) OP-ED BY MARY BERRY (APRIL 21, 2024) Download The Article and Op-Ed Connor Griffin (Courier Journal) recently wrote an article concerning Kentucky farms and farmland. You may read the article here, as well as the Op-Ed written by Mary...
by Cassel Bear | Mar 15, 2024 | Agriculture, Berry Center, Farming, News, Newsletter
THE BERRY CENTER NEWSLETTER – SPRING 2024 Download The Berry Center Newsletter - Spring 2024 Friends, We are pleased to share with you our latest publication, The Berry Center’s 2024 Spring & Summer Newsletter. If you would like to become a member of...
by Berry Center | Mar 24, 2021 | Agriculture, Berry Center, Farming, News
THE BERRY CENTER 2021 SPRING NEWSLETTER Download The Berry Center 2021 Spring Newsletter Friends, we hope you enjoy our new 2021 Spring Newsletter. While 2020 was a grind for us and everyone else, the emergent signs of spring bring us hope and comfort as we start the...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Farming
By Sarah Fritschner Ben Abell often goes against convention. Unlike many Kentucky farmers, he didn’t grow up on a farm, and has never grown tobacco. And though the average age of farmers is over 60, Ben is just 30, and has already been farming several years. In...
by Berry Center | Mar 26, 2017 | Farming
By Mary Berry Thinking about economics is part of everything we are doing at The Berry Center. That is clear, I hope, in our work to improve our local agricultural economy and with our work to use the Burley Tobacco Program as a model for agricultural policy that...
by Berry Center | Mar 25, 2017 | Farming
By Marry Berry Michele Guthrie, The Berry Center’s Archivist, recently found this quotation from my grandfather John Berry, Sr., “We agree to differ, we resolve to love, and we may cooperate to serve.” This was handwritten on the top of a church bulletin dated 1949....