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Billy Ray Smith named Distinguished Rural Kentuckian Bowling Green farm leader receives award - previously given only to Jesse Stuart, Hal Rogers, Cawood Ledford, Happy Chandler, O. Leonard Press, Louise Caudill, Wendell Berry, Jim Host and Wendell Ford - from Kentucky Electric Cooperatives Click on headline for complete story with photo(s) By Paul Wesslund Long-time farm leader Billy Ray Smith of Bowling Green accepted the Distinguished Rural Kentuckian Award from the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives on Tuesday, November 18, 2013. The award presentation described Smith's career that includes two terms as Kentucky's Commissioner of Agriculture; 14 years in the Kentucky General Assembly representing Warren and Simpson counties; seven years as executive director of the Kentucky FFA Foundation; and 30 years managing a grain elevator and livestock feed products company. In accepting the award Smith said one of his proudest achievements was the role he played in passing a law that mandated that 50 percent of the funds Kentucky receives from the tobacco master settlement agreement be used to improve Kentucky Agriculture. As part of a video tribute to Smith, Kentucky Agriculture Commissioner James Comer said that in the past decade "nothing's had a more positive impact on agriculture" in Kentucky than the passage and implementation of that law. The electric co-ops of Kentucky have presented the Distinguished Rural Kentuckian Award annually since 1982 to recognize people who have improved the quality of life in the state. The first recipient was author Jesse Stuart of Greenup. Other recipients include U.S. House Appropriations Committee Chair Representative Hal Rogers, broadcaster Cawood Ledford, former Governor A.B. "Happy" Chandler, KET founder O. Leonard Press, rural physician Dr. Louise Caudill, author Wendell Berry, media executive Jim Host, and former Senator Wendell Ford. Smith accepted the award at a banquet during the 67th annual meeting of the Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives. The Kentucky Association of Electric Cooperatives, based in Louisville, represents 26 local, user-owned electric cooperatives, which provide electricity to about one-third of the homes and businesses in the state, covering parts of 117 of the 120 counties in Kentucky. The writer, Paul Wesslund, is editor of Kentucky Living Magazine This story was posted on 2013-11-20 08:12:51
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