Beech Tree News Network

Betty Farris, Chair of the Kentucky Farm Bureau Women’s Committee (photo right), made a special trip to the state capitol in Frankfort on February 19 to present Representative C.B. Embry (photo left) with a basket of Kentucky-made products in recognition of “Food Check-Out Day.”

Kentucky Farm Bureau hosts this event each year in mid-February to mark the date when the average American has earned enough income to meet his or her annual cost of food – about 10 percent of a person’s disposable income, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.