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First REAP Deadline on Feb. 21

The Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) helps agricultural producers and rural small businesses complete energy projects. Offering both grants and loan guarantees, REAP helps eligible applicants conduct energy audits and feasibility studies, install renewable energy systems and make energy efficiency improvements.

The first deadline, for energy audits and for renewable energy development assistance, is Tuesday, February 21.

For more details, see the REAP NOFA in the January 20, 2012 Federal Register.

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Kentucky Department of Agriculture
Kentucky Fact Sheet, Economic Research Service, USDA. This specific fact sheet includes current data on population, per-capita income, earnings per job, poverty rates, employment, unemployment, farm and farm-related jobs, farm characteristics, farm financial characteristics, top ag commodities, top export commodities, and top counties in ag sales.
Kentucky Farm Bureau
Kentucky Farmers' Markets
Kentucky Rural Development
More Links
- AgMRC Action Newsletter State Profile - Kentucky.
- Kentucky Agricultural Statistics Service - This site provides agricultural statistics for Kentucky agricultural products.
- Kentucky Department of Agriculture Office of Agricultural Marketing and Product Promotion - The Division of Market Research assists Kentucky food manufacturers, farmers, agricultural businesses, and Kentucky agricultural commodity groups with the marketing and promotion of their produced and processed products. The office endeavors to expand existing and traditional markets and develop new markets, both on a domestic and international level.
- Kentucky Department of Agriculture Online Products Site - The Buy Kentucky web site offers Kentucky food and products for sale online; listings of where to buy Kentucky livestock, hay, wood products, equipment, and services; product directories, and a free web page to Kentucky producers.
- Kentucky Extension Service County Offices - This link provides a listing to all of the county offices in the Kentucky Extension system.
- Kentucky Farm Bureau Roadside Farm Markets, a reference guide for specific roadside farmers markets by location and product.
- Kentucky Permits and Licenses
- Marketing & Selling Food Products in Kentucky, University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service
- The Small Business Resource is designed to help business owners and entrepreneurs solve problems and locate key public and private organizations and individuals. These are business decision makers - businessmen and women looking to expand their operations, relocate companies, and plan a business start-up.

State Contacts

Sandra P. Gardner
Governor's Office of Agricultural Policy
Frankfort, KY
502-564-4627
sandra.gardner@ky.gov
http://agpolicy.ky.gov

Larry Snell
Kentucky Center for Agricultural and Rural Development
Elizabethtown, KY
(270) 763-8258
lsnell@kcard.info
www.kcard.info/contact.php

Larry Hayes
KY Cabinet for Economic Dev.
Frankfort, Kentucky
(502) 564-7140
econdev@ky.gov
www.thinkkentucky.com

Mac Stone
Kentucky Department of Agriculture
Frankfort, KY
(502) 564-0290
mac.stone@ky.gov
www.kyagr.com

Kara Keeton
Kentucky Farm Bureau
Louisville, KY
502-495-5106
kara.keeton@kyfb.com
www.kyfb.com

Kristen Branscum
Kentucky Department of Agriculture
Frankfort, KY
(502) 564-4983
kristen.branscum@ky.gov

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