This week, the University of Kentucky's board of trustees joined farmers and community members to celebrate a century of service at the Research and Education Center at Princeton, even as it continues to be rebuilt from the deadly 2021 tornado outbreak.

The center was created in September of 1925 in Caldwell County to provide crop and cattle research, outreach programs and educational training to western Kentucky farmers and UK ag students. It has long been a proud centerpiece of the county, with more than 60 employees on the 1600-acre site.

But in one single night, an EF-4 twister wiped out decades of infrastructure and millions of dollars of equipment. The tornado knocked down miles of cattle fencing, and most of the facility's buildings across five acres, including a newly renovated l

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