Agriculture

Kentucky Ag Commissioner Quarles Unveils Initiative to Fight Hunger

WKMS | By Todd Hatton,

Published January 8, 2018 at 8:13 AM CST

Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner Ryan Quarles plans to announce an initiative to combat hunger today. The Ag Department says Quarles will unveil a program at the Kentucky Fruit and Vegetable Conference in Lexington that creates economic incentives to provide fresh local produce for residents in need. Quarles formed a statewide Hunger Task Force in 2016 to address the problem at a time when food banks were struggling to keep up with demand. The panel has held meetings around the state to determine what logistics are necessary to meet the needs of each area. Quarles has said that it's unacceptable to have a hunger problem in a state with a rich agricultural history.

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Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.

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