Pricey Pork is the name of the game at the annual Ham breakfast at the Kentucky State Fair.

And again, the winner shelled out some hefty record breaking cash, too, at auction for the swine.

So the new record breaking country ham for 10.5 million 10.5, $2,500,000 sold Kim all around the blast.

That's a lot of bacon right there.

Joe and Kelly Kraft, as you see right there, nabbed the prize ham for the fourth year in a row.

Kelly Kraft is, of course, a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and she ran for governor during last year's Republican primary.

Her husband is president of Alliance Resource Partners, a major coal producer.

The $10.5 million will go to charities of their choice.

The ham came from broadband B and B in Lyon County in western Kentucky.

It's also the fourth year for broadband to be selected as the best ham producer.

As you see there, Miss Kentucky Chapel Tennis of Bowling Green presented the ham alongside a Brought to Life Fred Farm Bureau.

The 60th Country Ham Breakfast brought together politicians, college ball coaches and plenty of people who care about the state of farming in Kentucky.

Speakers addressed the challenges farmers face.

On the farm.

I understand the hard work and the tight knit communities that farming builds, but there are challenges today.

As Mr. Melton talked about.

We have market challenges, we have global pressures.

We have a lot of things that are in agriculture.

Depending on what commodity that you're in currently, you may have had a really good year, you may have had an okay year, you might be struggling.

In my area of the state, we've been in drought for a while.

We've gotten a few rain, but we need more In other parts of the state.

We've had too much rain or just enough rain.

And so depending on where you are in the state and what commodity that you deal with as whether or not you've got a big smile on your face this morning or a little smile on your face this morning.

But in agriculture, what we do is we persevere.

We move on for that next generation.

We try to attack those challenges every best way that we can.

When I was during part of our leadership time, I was the only one of the four leaders that was not from New York or California.

Our friends on the other side have become very urban oriented.

Frankly, there are not many Democratic elected officials left in small town and rural America.

And how that impacts an issue like this, they're just not particularly interested.

And just to point out, the Democratic leader in the Senate and the Democratic leader of the House both live in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn, which is a long way from here.

And so when they start lining up their priorities, farming comes out pretty low down the list.

The Kentucky Farm Bureau that hosts the country Ham Breakfast says Kentucky is losing too much of its farmland.

According to them, Kentucky has lost 17,000 farmers and more than 1 million acres of farmland in the last two decades.

To combat that, Kentucky Farm Bureau stated the Kentucky Farmland transition, or they started, rather, the Kentucky Farmland Transition Initiative.

It's meant to help retiring farmers give their land to those who still want it, whether that's keeping it in the family or selling it to the next generation of growers and ranchers.

You can learn more about that program online on demand at Katie Dawg Just Search Farmland Initiative.