Limestone Bancorp (LMST) 10-Q 2011 Q2 Quarterly report

Exhibit 32.2

SECTION 906 CERTIFICATION

In connection with the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q of Porter Bancorp, Inc. (the “Company”) for the annual period ended June 30, 2011, as filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on the date hereof (the “Report”), I, David B. Pierce, Chief Financial Officer of the Company, do hereby certify, in accordance with 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, that:

(1)           The Report fully complies with the requirements of Section 13(a) or 15(d), as applicable, of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

(2)           The information contained in the Report fairly presents, in all material respects, the financial condition and results of operations of the Company.

	PORTER BANCORP, INC.
Dated:  August 15, 2011	By:	/s/ David B. Pierce
		David B. Pierce
		Chief Financial Officer