PRESS RELEASE
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has mailed ballots for the Farm Service Agency (FSA) county committee elections to eligible farmers and ranchers across the country. To be counted, ballots must be returned to the Lincoln-Garrard County FSA office or postmarked by Feb. 2, 2026.
Each committee is comprised of three to 11 elected members who serve three-year terms.
Newly elected committee members will take office March 2, 2026. Lincoln & Garrard County committee members play a key role in how FSA delivers disaster recovery, safety-net, conservation, commodity and price support programs, as well as making decisions on county office employment and other FSA program delivery issues.
The following producer has been nominated and is running in the election in LAA # 3, which includes all farmland in Lincoln County that is south of Highway 150 and East of US Highway 27 is Paul Wyler.
Paul Wyler is nominated for reelection, in Lincoln County LAA 3, to serve as a committee member for a 3-year term. He was raised on a dairy farm in Lincoln County and does not remember a time when he has not been farming. He attended UK and continued to farm part-time while in college. He retired from AG Credit after 40 years of service and has farmed full-time ever since. He runs the family farm that belonged to his father as well as the farms that he and his wife, Susan, own in the Walnut Flats area.
To be eligible to vote in the county committee elections, producers must participate or cooperate in a USDA program and be assigned to the LAA that is up for election. Each year, at least one Local Administrative Area (LAA) in each COC jurisdiction is up for election on a three-year rotation, and each producer is assigned to vote in a single LAA. A cooperating producer is someone who has provided information about their farming or ranching operation to FSA, even if they have not applied or received program benefits.  
Producers can identify LAAs up for election through a geographic information system locator tool available at fsa.usda.gov/elections and may confirm their LAA by contacting their local FSA office. Eligible voters who do not receive a ballot in the mail can request one from the Lincoln-Garrard County FSA office at 102 Metker Trail Ste.1, Stanford, KY 40484 or call 606-365-2588.
