Central Bank KY has won the prize Broadbent ham with a bid of $325,000. The winner requested the money go to UK Gatton College, UK Athletics, UK Hospital and the Garvice Kincaid Scholarship Foundation.
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The Kentucky Farm Bureau is hosting the 54th Country Ham Breakfast and Auction Thursday. Broadbent B&B Foods won the grand champion prize for its country ham. Proceeds will benefit a Kentucky charity of the auction winner’s choosing.
The event typically draws more than 1,500 guests from across the state. The Kentucky Farm Bureau has raised nearly $10 million for charity since the event began in 1964.
Broadbent has won the grand prize more than a dozen times. Their 2014 winning ham was sold for $2 million.
The hams are judged on their aroma, shape, color and lean-to-fat ratio.
