FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Source from:  LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY 12/14/2005

Marshall Coyle, a Bath County farmer and long-time leader in Farm Bureau and state and national tobacco organizations, is the new president of Kentucky Farm Bureau Federation. Coyle, who had served as Farm Bureau's first vice president since 1998, was elected president as the organization's annual meeting in Louisville concluded Dec. 10. He succeeds Sam Moore of Butler County who announced this fall that he would not seek an eighth one-year term as president. Moore remains on the board as immediate past president. Coyle, who raises beef cattle and tobacco on a 700-acre operation near Owingsville, is the 21st president in the 86-year history of Kentucky Farm Bureau, the largest group representing agriculture interests in Kentucky. He has served on the state board of directors since 1976 and has represented Farm Bureau as a member of the board of the Kentucky Tobacco Settlement Trust Corp. He is the current president of Bath County Farm Bureau, where he has been a local leader since his election to the board there in 1968. A former mayor of Owingsville, Coyle has been active in the Bath County Cattlemen's Association and was named Bath County farmer of the year by the local chamber of commerce. He and his wife, Phyllis, have two children. Succeeding Coyle as first vice president is Mark Haney, who had served as second vice president for seven years. He is chairman of Farm Bureau's Resolutions Committee. Haney is also president of the Pulaski County Farm Bureau and the Kentucky Center of Cooperative Development. Haney, who joined Kentucky Farm Bureau's board as a director in 1993, and his brother operate an orchard and beef farm near Nancy. John C. Hendricks of Winchester, a Farm Bureau director since 1998, was elected second vice president to replace Haney. He is president of the Clark County Farm Bureau and is a member of the Clark County Soil Conservation board of directors, Cattlemen's Association and Ag Development Council. Hendricks produces beef cattle, hay and vegetables on a 640-acre family farm near Winchester. Three new members were elected to the 32-member Kentucky Farm Bureau board: Tripp Furches, Murray; Patrick M. Henderson, Irvington; and Daniel Smith, Stamping Ground. Going off the board were Mike Burchett, Benton; former president Bill Sprague, Sturgis; Greg Goode, Liberty; and Paul Hornback, Shelbyville. Other members of the Farm Bureau board of directors are: Randall Heath, Hickory; Kelly Thurman, Livermore; Eddie Melton; Sebree; Steve Bolinger, Pembroke; J. Fritz Giesecke, Horse Cave; Larry Thomas, Elizabethtown; Al Pedigo, Scottsville; Russell Poore, Russellville; James R. Mahan, Lexington; Gene Lanham, Gravel Switch; Robert Reed Bush, Campbellsburg; David Chappell, Owenton; Danny Wilkinson, Columbia; Kim McCoy, Burkesville; Terry R. Gilbert, Danville; David L. Campbell, Stanford; Alex Barnett, Cynthiana; David McGlone, Grayson; Charlie Benge, London; Bige Hensley, Manchester; Cathy Pleasants, Stanford; Terry Patterson, Elizabethtown; Dr. Larry W. Turner, Lexington; Rodney Kelly, Frankfort; and Jerry Little, Danville. Enditem