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The Boyle County Farmers Market will hold its fourth annual Christmas sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the fairgrounds on the Danville bypass. Come visit us at the brown metal building located just behind our usual market area. There will be lots of great gifts, gift baskets, fresh greenery and baked goods, just to name a few. See below for a listing of some of the great things you will find. Briar Knob Farm: sourdough sweet breads, sourdough bread and rolls, pumpkin bread, cheddar cheese rolls and granola.

LOUISVILLE - Recognized for the achievements of its women's program this year, Boyle County Farm Bureau was awarded the 2012 Gold Star Award of Excellence during Kentucky Farm Bureau's annual meeting in Louisville. The award honors county Women's Committees for active participation in leadership development programs, agricultural promotion, educational initiatives and numerous other aspects of support to the local Farm Bureau. With nearly 500,000 member families statewide, Kentucky Farm Bureau is the state's largest general farm organization.

JUNCTION CITY - Two Boyle County men and a juvenile were arrested Friday after allegedly attempting to steal irrigation piping from a Lincoln County farm. Nicholas Goode, 31, of Junction City, and Nathan Griffin, 19, of Danville, have both been charged with theft by unlawful taking. Griffin was being held in the Lincoln County Regional Jail without bond Tuesday night. The juvenile was charged with theft by unlawful taking and then released to his parents, Lincoln County Sheriff Curt Folger said.

Boyle County received good news this month in the form of $621.67 donated to local 4-H programs via voluntary donations people made when purchasing their farm license plate tags in 2012. In February, Kentucky Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer announced that for the first time, proceeds from the voluntary donations on farm license plates would be divided equally among 4-H, FFA and Kentucky Proud. You can see the logos of all three of these groups prominently displayed on the tags.

In the winter of 1944, the snow came. It came full-force, dropping two feet on the Ardennes region of Belgium. That was the winter Cova Duvall nearly lost his feet, when he wondered how much worse things could get. The snow was blinding, and heavy cloud cover made it nearly impossible to see. “It's amazing what men went through. You take fighting snow two-feet deep, the drop it down to 24 below zero, you couldn't hardly stand it,”¿Duvall said. Earlier that year, Duvall was just an 18-year-old farm kid in rural Edmonson County, in western Kentucky.

CAMP DICK - State Commissioner of Agriculture James Comer and Rep. Lonnie Napier made a special visit Saturday to the Marksbury Farm Market's 12,000-square-foot meat processing and distribution facility on U.S. 27. Comer and Napier, who described themselves as long-time friends, said they wanted to learn more about the locally-owned business that opened in August 2010. “I wanted to visit one of the most successful agricultural businesses in the state during my visit to Garrard County,” Comer said.

An insurance company that sued the city of Danville last month over a claim it paid for damages caused to a business by a backed up sewer has withdrawn the complaint.  Farm Bureau Insurance voluntarily pulled the lawsuit on Aug. 31, even before attorneys for the city responded to allegations made in the complaint.  The motion to withdraw, filed for Farm Bureau by Campbellsville attorney John Miller, does not provide any explanation for the company's change of heart. The lawsuit alleged the city  failed to properly maintain a sewer line near the now defunct Danville Christian Bookstore and Music Center.

FRANKFORT - A recent grant from the Walmart Foundation allowed the Kentucky Association of Food Banks to purchase and distribute 370,000 pounds of Kentucky-grown produce this summer through its Farms to Food Banks program. This is the equivalent of half a plate full of fruits and vegetables for 569,000 meals. Farms to Food Banks provides fresh, healthy produce to Kentuckians in need while reducing the amount of wasted food and providing additional markets for farmers. The association purchases at cost Kentucky-grown surplus and No. 2 produce that is edible but not saleable on the retail market.

LANCASTER - Authorities have identified the body of a man found Sunday in a Garrard County field. The body of Floyd Smith, 55, of Crab Orchard, was found lying in a farm field on Ky. 39 south of Lancaster, said Garrard Coroner Daryl Hodge. Steven Crouch, a farmer who had been clearing his field, hit the body with his Bush Hog and alerted authorities. Smith had been dead for at least a few days, Hodge said. An autopsy was performed Monday, but the results were inconclusive, according to¿Hodge.