AG CREDIT CULTIVATE PROGRAM HITS THE ROAD

Central Kentucky Ag Credit takes pride in finding innovative ways to assist the local agricultural community. Our Cultivate program is designed to nurture tomorrow’s community leaders with a special focus on young, beginning and small farmers.

The two-year program is designed to increase participants’ knowledge of ag financing, marketing, production and more while networking with peers from across Ag Credit’s 17- county territory. Thirteen participants applied and were ultimately selected by the program’s advisory council and Ag Credit staff.

Participating Ag Credit employees are Vice President and Chief Lending Officer Richard Medley, Regional Lending Manager Willie Wilson, Marketing Coordinator Cassie Johnson, as well as loan officers Shelbi Taylor and Randa Morris and Anna Mattingly. Aaron Clark, Marcus Wiseman, and Andy and Danielle Bratcher – all graduates of the previous program –are members of the advisory council. They have been great advocates for the program and help plan the group’s quarterly meetings.

In May, the Cultivate group toured Marcus Wiseman’s family farm, where Wiseman explained how his cattle operation is run. After the tour, the group traveled to the Clark County Farm Bureau office, where retired Brig. Gen. Ben Adams III gave a powerful and motivating leadership speech.

Cultivate participants will meet again in August to tour Ayres Livestock in Lancaster, Ky.