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The 16 colleges of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System, as well as colleges and universities across the country, are dealing with an unprecedented delay in students’ ability to apply for federal financial aid. This delay stems from the largest overhaul in...

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Dr. Ryan Quarles, who is one of 12 candidates vying for the Republican nomination to be Kentucky’s next governor, visited Williamsburg last week and wants voters in this region to know that he has a plan to promote Eastern Kentucky. “For Eastern...

(OpEd By Kentucky’s Commissioner of Agriculture Dr. Ryan Quarles. This piece originally appeared in the June 2020 issue of Kentucky Farm Bureau Magazine.) Across the nation, the coronavirus has highlighted issues in our food supply chain, our reliance on foreign countries for...

Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture Ryan Quarles made a campaign stop in Corbin Tuesday. The Republican incumbent is seeking is second term in office. “This is the defacto voice of rural Kentucky,” said the Scott County native who grew up working on a farm growing tobacco and...

Kentucky’s Commissioner of Agriculture said last week that the state is well positioned to be even more of an agricultural powerhouse than it is today, provided it continues on a course of diversification and innovation. Ryan Quarles, who was on a re-election tour of sorts,...

Alternative crops, misconceptions about agriculture and the local food movement were among the topics that Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles addressed during two stops in Whitley County Thursday. Quarles spoke to a group of more than three-dozen people – many of who...