ACRE Program Could Pay Big for Kentucky Wheat Farmers in 2009

Contact: Cory Walters, 859-257-2996 Greg Halich, 859-257-8841LEXINGTON , Ky., (April 7, 2010) – Kentucky wheat growers who signed up for the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s optional Average Crop Revenue Election Program , or ACRE, will likely see big payments this year, said Cory Walters and Greg Halich, agricultural economists in the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture.“In