100 NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN February 2025 -Your Dark Red Herd Sire HeadquartersMACKLEY SIMMENTALS AND SIMANGUS THE "DYNAMITE" BRAND C-4 -Breeding Simmental Cattle Since 1969Duff Red Bear PRIVATE TREATY BULLS Contact Gary Mackley 79230 Highway 40 Arnold, NE 69120 Home: (308) 848-2634 Cell: (308) 636-8512 FREE WINTERING & DELIVERY ARRANGMENTS - Sires - Freeze Frame - Polled Prairie Fire Hot Shot - Next Level High Powered Dark Cherry Red Bulls Registered Yearlings and Coming Two's TOP OF THE LINE RED GENETICS 53 YEAR AS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN SIMMENTAL ASSOCIATION -ASA#1748 the relationship between the cattle feeder and packer, and the technologies that improve beef cattle production efficiency. NEBRASKA RANGE & CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT The Nebraska Range & Conservation Endowment was established in December 2011 to provide grants to range management and conservation research and/or teaching positions at Nebraska post-secondary educational institutions. This award honors professors or instructors who are providing cutting-edge research and/or student instruction in a range management and conservation-related area. Mary Drewnoski, Ph.D., assistant professor and Extension beef systems specialist with UNL, received this year’s Nebraska Range & Conservation Endowment and was awarded a $6,000 grant on behalf of the Nebraska Cattlemen Foundation. Drewnoski joined the Department of Animal Science in 2014. Her research and Extension program focuses on the utilization of crop residues and cover crop forage for backgrounding calves and feeding beef cows. She also serves on an interdisciplinary team evaluating economical systems for integrated crop and livestock production in Nebraska FRIEND OF THE FOUNDATION The Friend of the Foundation award is presented to a person or business that has shared endless amounts of time and talent with the Nebraska Cattlemen Foundation. The foundation is pleased to announce Lee Weide as the 2024 recipient of the Friend of the Foundation Award. Weide started with Nebraska Cattlemen in early 1997 with the member-driven Nebraska Corn Fed Beef program, first as database coordinator and then as director. In 2000, Weide became an analyst for the NC Market Reporting Service. Later that year, Weide started his role as the director of feedlot member services and eventually became vice president of member services. Beginning in 2000, Weide also took on the important role of managing the Nebraska Cattlemen Beef Pit at the Nebraska State Fair, an exceptionally high-visibility and vital NC function. Weide and his wife, Jennifer, put in countless hours each year, coordinating and organizing the many volunteers who worked the Beef Pit, helping prepare and cook the meat and working with the state fair vendors, leadership and staff to ensure that consumers always had an exceptional meal. In addition to his duties with Nebraska Cattlemen, beginning in 2005 Weide served as staff liaison to the Nebraska Cattleman Foundation. In this role, he worked closely with the staff at Darr Feedlot where the annual NC Foundation Retail Value Steer Challenge (RVSC) is held. Weide maintained the highest level of detailed data management of cattle for members and contributors throughout each RVSC. In 2006, Weide became NC vice president of operations, in addition to his role as staff liaison to the foundation; he held both positions until his retirement last year. Weide was instrumental in the capital campaign and building project that led Nebraska Cattlemen to its new office home in the summer of 2019. With 28 years of service to Nebraska Cattlemen and the Nebraska Cattlemen Foundation, there is no one more deserving of this award than Weide. Established in 1968, the Nebraska Cattlemen Foundation’s mission is to advance the future of Nebraska’s Beef industry by investing in research and education programs. The foundation’s success and its ability to endow scholarships, sponsor leadership and education programs, and assist with research and infrastructure projects have been possible only because of the support from Nebraska cattle producers and allied industries. ~NC~ NC FOUNDATION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 98
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