108 NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN February 2024 1/3 Page Horizontal Nebraska Cattleman Black & White January 2024 Peterson Beel, LLP Protecting clients’ interests with honesty and integrity. PETERSON BEEL, LLP Business and Estate Planning • Licensed in Nebraska and South Dakota Toll Free: (855) 588-4LAW www.petersonbeel.com 114 East 3rd Street Valentine, NE 69201 Offering not just sound legal advice, but also generations of experience in agriculture. We provide family business transition, estate and business planning services for family ranches, farms and feedlots across north-central Nebraska. 418 Main St., Suite 3 Winner, SD 57580 PEERS NCF HONORS BEEF INDUSTRY LEADERS LEE WEIDE | NEBRASKA CATTLEMEN FOUNDATION SECRETARY During the 2023 Nebraska Cattlemen (NC) Annual Convention Awards Banquet, the Nebraska Cattlemen Foundation (NCF) presented the Nebraska Beef Industry Endowment, the Nebraska Range & Conservation Endowment and the Friend of the Foundation award to three trailblazers in the beef industry. NEBRASKA BEEF INDUSTRY ENDOWMENT For 2023, NCF awarded a $5,000 Nebraska Beef Industry Endowment grant to Tommy Wheeler, Ph.D., supervisory research food technologist at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center - Meat Safety and Quality Research Unit at Clay Center. Wheeler graduated from Texas Tech University with his bachelor’s in agriculture economics in 1984 and his master’s in meat science in 1986. He earned his Ph.D. in meat science and muscle biology from Texas A&M University in 1989. Wheeler is recognized internationally as a leading scientist in the areas of meat quality, carcass composition, instrument grading and meat safety, as well as the leader of an internationally recognized research team that is successfully addressing high-priority industry issues in meat safety and quality. NEBRASKA RANGE & CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT For 2023, NCF awarded a $5,000 Nebraska Range & Conservation Endowment grant to Mitchell Stephenson, Ph.D., associate professor and range management specialist with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) stationed at the Panhandle Research, Extension and Education Center in Scottsbluff. His research is focused on understanding how grazing management decisions influence livestock production, grazing behavior, plant communities and soil health in the central and western Great Plains. His current research includes studies evaluating the grazing distribution and behavior of beef cows on Sandhills rangelands; timing and intensity of grazing on sandhill sub-irrigated meadow systems; plant community variability in the Nebraska Sandhills; and use of virtual fencing and other precision livestock management tools for defined objectives. CONTINUED ON PAGE 110
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