Stapleton FFA President Tad Dimmitt has used his Supervised Agricultural Experience (SAE) opportunities to pursue two different entrepreneurial ventures: landscaping and food service. Through his landscaping SAE, Dimmitt said he designs flower beds, trims hedges, rakes leaves and does lots of volunteer work in the community. His food service SAE,…
The Nebraska FFA State Officers continue their chapter visits throughout the state this month. State Vice President Grace Timm, originally of the Creek Valley FFA Chapter, describes what goes on during a chapter visit.
The Nebraska FFA Organization continues to grow in members and chapters. This year, 10 new chapters were chartered in the state to bring the total to 210 chapters with nearly 12,000 Nebraska FFA members. Nebraska FFA State President Lexi Bodlak said FFA and ag education are helping to shape the…
Palmer FFA students are taking ownership of their agricultural education experiences by creating new, hands-on opportunities to learn. The students are in the process of launching their ‘Heifer Project.’ The project will feature a heifer for the students to be fully responsible for year-round. Palmer FFA Chapter Reporter Makenna Mottl…
She may only be an 8th grader, but a Nebraska FFA member is already receiving national support for her FFA project. Sarah Mundt, a member of the Hershey FFA Chapter, was recently awarded a $1,000 national grant to help expand her dog treat business, Sarah’s K9 Kibbles. The business also…
The manager of a Nebraska feedlot has been elected into a top leadership position within the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association. Buck Wehrbein, who has managed custom feedlots since 1984 in Nebraska and Texas, was elected Vice President of NCBA late last week. Wehrbein also feeds his own cattle and previously…
IANR Vice Chancellor Mike Boehm joins us from New Orleans to discuss some of Nebraska's involvement at this year's Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA trade show!
The popular CattleFax Outlook Seminar, held as part of the 2023 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show in New Orleans, shared expert market and weather analysis. Prices and profitability will again favor cattle producers in 2023. The cattle industry is entering 2023 with the smallest cattle supply since 2015…
Four Nebraska are part of a new Trailblazers program, developed by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), a contractor to the Beef Checkoff. The program, according to NCBA, takes advocacy to an unprecedented level by giving participants the tools and training they need to promote beef to new audiences while…
George Cooksley from Anselmo, Nebraska is the chair of the Nebraska Beef Council
