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Which counties in Kentucky have a lot of crop farms (as opposed to horses)? I prefer to photograph them but don't know where to start. Don't seem to have much luck with the search engines on this. Thanks in advance.
The western portion of the state, although there are more crop farms than horse farms in just about every county of the state, except possibly Fayette County. Jefferson (Louisville) and Fayette (Lexington), along with a few of their surrounding counties, have fewer farms of any kind. Once upon a time every county had quite a few tobacco farms but a good portion of them have switched crops or in more populated counties the land is being used for non-farming purposes. Eastern Kentucky’s terrain isn’t really conducive to substantial farming, but it is there.
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The western portion of the state, although there are more crop farms than horse farms in just about every county of the state, except possibly Fayette County. Jefferson (Louisville) and Fayette (Lexington), along with a few of their surrounding counties, have fewer farms of any kind. Once upon a time every county had quite a few tobacco farms but a good portion of them have switched crops or in more populated counties the land is being used for non-farming purposes. Eastern Kentucky’s terrain isn’t really conducive to substantial farming, but it is there.
Horse farms and Dairy Farms are the most dominate in the Bluegrass section (Fayette County and Central Kentucky), but there are a lot of other just regular farms too....and orchards.
They say that the Bluegrass Region of Kentucky contains some of the most fertile soil in the
state/country...Pennyroyal is also a very productive as to farmland/agriculture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Kentucky
Most of Kentucky is very rural and made up of farms and small towns.
If you want to photograph tobacco in the fields better get down to western Kentucky pretty quick. There's plenty of it down here and quite a bit is already in the barns and being smoke cured (dark fired tobacco). At one time, back in the 1920s and 30s, Mayfield was the world leader in tobacco sales. I'm seeing more now than when I was growing up. Also plenty of corn, soybeans, and canola. When I lived in Union County there were farmers growing popcorn. They'd let you glean all you wanted after they had combined the fields. I'll take stove top popped popcorn over microwaved anytime!
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