76 NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN January 2024 ENERGY CONVERTERS, ENERGY SAVER Stop wasting time, money, and energy. Step into the next generation. -Cloud-based -Data Analytics -Real-time recording -Support any size feedlot Say goodbye to your outdated software. Live demos at booth 2018 at NCBA or schedule one today! 208-849-2570 NC members and leaders meet with NC office builders regarding the building site and plans for the NC building at 4611 Cattle Drive, for which Weide served as the staff coordinator and general contractor. Left to right, are former NC Executive Vice President Pete McClymont, Mark Masek, Dave Masek, Doug Parde, Ron Coufal, Lee Weide, Doug Whitehead and Dave McCracken. Lee Weide, center left, and former Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman, center right, tour the Beef Pit at the Nebraska State Fair in 2012. and Education 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. The turn-around time from the end of the RVSC to the NC Midyear Meeting where the results were shared and winners 27 YEARS OF SERVICE CONTINUED FROM PAGE 74 CONTINUED ON PAGE 78 announced was always demanding, but Weide always delivered the results completely and on time. Beginning in 2000, Weide 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, coordinating with Daryl and Maggie Griepenstroh to help prepare and cook the meat, and working
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