♪ What does it take to become the batter capital of the world?

Start with a special type of wheat grown in abundance added a dash of ingenuity, then mix in a lot of hard work and it inspired marketing plan.

Kentucky Edition went on the road to Hopkinsville to find out more about the city's recipe for sweet success, too.

>> That was pretty much born and raised here.

I love Hopkinsville.

They say if you love what you do, you'll never work a day in your life.

And that's truly.

>> How I feel just to be here.

I have pride in my community.

>> The people in it so I do this all day every day, all over again for me.

It's the fact that I have the honor of sharing the story of where I came from, where I've been.

I've come back to and now I'm at this spot.

Hopkinsville, Kentucky is the leading week producer of Wheat we Harvest more week than any other county in the state of Kentucky.

Roughly over 3 million bushels of wheat are harvested every year.

It is a soft red winter wheat, which is ideal for your baking your pastries pies, things of that nature we manufacture here.

All of the crest.

These products, all of the ghirardelli baking mixes the red lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuit mix.

The pancake mix for Cracker Barrel.

And an interesting fact is if you eat a biscuit from a McDonald's and that McDonald sits east of the Mississippi River.

All of the flower that made it this good came from right here in Hopkinsville.

So yet 3 million bushels of wheat every year is amazing.

And I think the happiest thing what makes me happiest about us being the better capital is it just pays tribute in the 2 shows the hard work that our farmers put in farmers are very humble individuals and they are the ones that are doing all of this.

We could not be the batter capital if they were not out there doing what they did when COVID hit, we had a lot of time to do a lot of the world was just kind of turned upside down topsy-turvy.

So, Brooke, Young.

>> Who was the executive director during that time.

This idea just came from her reading a book doing her research, an I have been, we are the better capital.

We have skillets that are branded the batter capital of the world.

You know, when people can drive through the city and see those weeks, stocks or coming here and take pictures, you know, in the batter bowl.

It's a pride thing, you know, because it's like, KET, that's us.

And they know that at some the economic impact that this has had on the community.

He's been amazing because we literally had people drive here just to get a picture in the battle we stick.

Our, you know, our chest out.

And we're just happy that, hey, that's us with a better capital, sweetest place on Earth.