For over sixty years the Louisville Agricultural Club has served as a communication link among Kentuckiana’s farmers, agribusinesses, agricultural colleges and universities, agricultural students, and others interested in agricultural issues. Seventeen people attended the first meeting, headed by Charles Keen, on December 15th, 1948 at the Seelbach Hotel in Louisville.
By the end of its first year, the club had fifty members. The membership more than doubled over the next few years. Today, after many changes in the agriculture industry, the club still has 150+ members. This is astonishing when you think of the reduction in farms being experienced across the nation, and the urban sprawl which consumes a large portion of the area in which we serve. The Louisville Ag Club has become the largest forum on agriculture and agribusiness in the Louisville area.
Past Presidents
1949 – H.L.Covert
1950 – H.V. Bastin
1951 – W.P. Tate
1952 – J.O. Matlick
1953 – S.W. Anderson
1954 – A.B. Sawyer Jr.
1955 – Eugene Cochran
1956 – Clifford Pearce
1957 – Charlie Keen
1958 – H. Corley Brown
1959 – Charlie Wallace
1960 – Lloyd Clark
1961 – A.R. Parsons
1962 – James Perkins
1963 – W.N. England
1964 – William C. Johnstone
1965 – J. Ed Napier
1966 – Henry Fischer Jr.
1967 – James M. Koepper
1968 – R. Fenley
1969 – John C. Turner
1970 – Jack Gardner
1971 – J. Harold Caudill
1972 – Ben Hermann
1973 – Mark Randall
1974 – David Williams
1975 – George Clark
1976 – Dennis Liptrap
1977 – Dr. Malcolm Barnes
1978 – Dean M. Wallace
1979 – H. Corley Brown
1980 – Ray Adams
1981 – Richard H. Cleveland
1982 – Howard Kamin
1983 – J. Walter Brown
1984 – David Beck
1985 – Amil Kleinert
1986 – Bob Welch
1987 – Stan Bridges
1988 – Tim Morgan
1989 – Ron Pryor
1990 – Bill Padon
1991 – David Lawyer
1992 – Larry Myers
1993 – Jim Whitaker
1994 – Jon Rieger
1995 – Sam Crawford
1996 – Robert Monk
1997 – Todd Barlow
1998 – Ron Thomas
1999 – Jim Naïve
2000 – Leland Brown
2001 – John Colliver
2002 – David Trotter
2003 – Johnny Franklin
2004 – Carl Kramer
2005 – Dick Poe
2006 – Al Bissmeyer
2007 – Kathy Dailey
2008 – Matt Michaud
2009 – Jennifer Jansing
2010 – Bill Medley
2011 – Jeff Hall
2012 – George Nowatka
2013 – Ed McQueen
2014 – Bruce Pearce