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The farm stands on what was part of the nearly 8,000 acres granted to Abraham Bowman, a veteran of the American Revolutionary War. Keeneland racetrack was later built on the site of Bowman's plantation. [3] The land that eventually became Jonabell Farm contains Bowman Cabin, built in 1799. [4] The original stone water tower also still stands. [5]
Over the same time period, tobacco went from 23.8% of the state's total farm receipts in 1990 to 18.6% in 2000 to 7.3% in 2012. [9] Nevertheless, Kentucky remains the United States' second-largest producer of tobacco. [2] Kentucky is the United States' #1 producer of horses. [2]
Hacker describes that in Kentucky about 1812: Farms were for sale with from ten to fifty acres cleared, possessing log houses, peach and sometimes apple orchards, inclosed in fences, and having plenty of standing timber for fuel.
Farmland declined by half a million acres in Kentucky between 2017-22, new U.S. Department of Agriculture data shows. ... ‘Not dirt to us’ ... About half of the land in Kentucky is still in ...
Although four million farms disappeared in the United States between 1948 and 2015, total output from the farms that remained more than doubled. The number of farms with more than 2,000 acres (810 ha) almost doubled between 1987 and 2012, while the number of farms with 200 acres (81 ha) to 999 acres (404 ha) fell over the same period by 44%. [12]
The September yearling sale represents the sale of horses from the breeding farms to race horse owners. In 2016, 2,792 yearlings were sold for a total cost of $272,890,500. The November breeding stock sale handles mares retiring from the racetrack, stock dispersals that occur when an owner leaves the business, and sales of older mares, often ...
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