The Kentucky Farm Bureau is gearing up for a full legislative session starting in January, but before that, the Christian County Farm Bureau hosted a legislative meet and greet event Monday morning to meet with law makers and talk priorities.
Local magistrates, state legislators and the President of Kentucky Farm Bureau were on hand for the event, and local Farm Bureau President Barry Cornelius says this event is about getting local leaders together in an informal gathering and thank them for their service to the community.
He says they’ll be speaking with those legislators in depth before too long, as the Farm Bureau annual meeting will be held in December, where they’ll iron out their priorities for the Kentucky General Assembly. He says farmers are facing plenty of struggles, especially where it comes to prices and tariffs.
Eddie Melton heads up the Kentucky Farm Bureau at the state level, and says they receive resolutions from every county bureau in the state and from numerous other sources, and in the coming weeks they’ll work through those and see what they’ll advocate for in Frankfort.
Melton says one area he knows for sure they’ll continue to work towards is keeping ‘transitional’ land in the hands of American farmers, to make sure land isn’t bought up by foreign governments.
He also encouraged farmers of all ages to make sure they have their succession plans in place, so their farm land goes to the people they want it to, instead of going onto the market for purchase.
The Kentucky General Assembly will begin on January 6.