Mission

The Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment is the University of Kentucky's focal interdisciplinary center for the comprehensive integration of research, education, and public service.

TFCE and the College of Agriculture

The Tracy Farmer Center for the Environment exists under the stewardship of the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture. This arrangement affords opportunities to build upon a variety of existing synergies in research, outreach, and education, while presenting the Center with a leadership role in such projects as the Kentucky Wildlife Institute and the SB271 Groundwater Research and Education Program.

The College of Agriculture is committed to continuing the multidisciplinary role the Center plays within both the University and the broader Commonwealth, while providing support in areas ranging from staffing to communication and development.

About the Center's Namesake

Lexington-area horseman, banker and entrepreneur Tracy W. Farmer has long been a leader in Kentucky business and civic activities. From 1979 to 1991, Mr. Farmer served on the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees; he is a former member of UK Business Partnership Foundation and of the UK Development Council. He served as chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party in 1981 and was Public Protection and Regulation Cabinet Secretary under Governor John Y. Brown, Jr.

Born in Jackson County, Kentucky and raised in Lee County, Kentucky, Mr. Farmer and his wife Carol currently reside at Shadowlawn Farm - a thoroughbred horse farm near Midway, KY.

Mr. Tracy W. Farmer