Leann Martin Receives Logan County Farm Bureau Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award - Kentucky Farm Bureau

Leann Martin Receives Logan County Farm Bureau Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award

Logan County Farm Bureau President Doug Milliken presents Leann Martin the 2021 Logan County Farm Bureau Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award for outstanding work in agriculture.

Leann Martin received the 2021 Logan County Farm Bureau Distinguished Service to Agriculture Award for outstanding work in agriculture. During the award presentation, Logan County Farm Bureau President Doug Milliken said “Leann has been the University of Kentucky Extension Agent for Logan County for seven and one half years. Her husband Trent, along with their boys Billy, Boe and Bryce, are actively involved as a family in Logan County agriculture and Farm Bureau. Leann, while serving as County Agent, has always been involved in and supportive of agriculture organizations, farms and agribusinesses in Logan County, including our county Farm Bureau. We are especially appreciative of the support she has provided Farm Bureau by making the facilities of the Extension Complex available to us numerous times during the pandemic of the past two years. We want to present her with this plaque in recognition for the great job she does as servant to the Agriculture Industry in Logan County.”

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