Farmer asked U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack for declarations of agricultural disasters in the wake of an ice storm in January 2009 that endangered the state 's livestock and flooding that affected Kentucky Lake in 2010 , damaging large portions of the state 's corn , soybean , and wheat crops . In December 2010 , he launched a joint investigation with Democratic Attorney General Jack Conway into claims that the Eastern Livestock company had not paid Kentucky cattlemen for $ 130 million in livestock
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2010 Tennessee floods
Richie Farmer