Decisions made in Washington D.C. will have a profound effect on the future of Kentucky agriculture. To learn about that impact, the public is being urged to attend a daylong educational conference, “2002 Farm Policy and You.”

“This is a critical time for agriculture, in our state and in our nation,” said Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Billy Ray Smith. “The U.S. House of Representatives has passed its farm legislation, and the Senate is currently working on its version. How these proposals may affect Kentucky’s agriculture is the focus of this workshop.”

The conference is set for Nov. 5 in the South Wing of the Kentucky Fair and Exposition Center in Louisville, with the program starting at 10 a.m.

“I am very grateful to the Bluegrass Chapter of the Soil and Water Conservation Society, who is sponsoring this conference in cooperation with the Kentucky Farm Bureau, the Kentucky Division of Conservation, the University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service and the Kentucky Department of Agriculture,” Commissioner Smith said. “This workshop will allow the public to get an overall perspective on the farm policy now being developed