November 2026 NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN 17 Member FDIC ONE THAT PROVIDES. Time-tested Agribusiness banking. /agribusiness TD Angus North Platte, NE © 2026 CNH Industrial America LLC. All rights reserved. New Holland is a trademark registered in the United States and many other countries, owned by or licensed to CNH Industrial N.V., its subsidiaries or affiliates. Dinkel_NC0124.indd 1 325.indd 1 Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and a cover crop company, Green Cover, helping her develop skills in communication, collaboration and sales, while expanding her technical knowledge of grassland management. “These experiences were really interesting and very valuable, and the people I learned from made them more meaningful,” Sheridan says. While it wasn’t her plan to return to the ranch immediately after college, she is glad to be back in her community and getting involved. Sheridan has helped with her church’s youth group and Bible studies, which has given her an opportunity to give back to the community that gave her so much. Returning to the ranch also meant bringing her husband, Luke, who grew up on a farm and cow-calf operation near White Post, Va. “Luke has fallen in love with Arthur, and he has helped teach me how to come home and rejoin the community, because he finds so much value in spending quality time with family and going to small town events to really connect with people,” Sheridan explains. Sheridan found the community really came together this spring when the Morrill Fire – the largest fire in Nebraska history – burned more than 643,000 acres across multiple counties. Sheridan’s family lost around 80 percent of their pasture. Immediately, people started showing up to help. “We got burned on the first day of the fire, so even when it was burning elsewhere, people started showing up and checking in with us,” Sheridan recalls. “Hay started showing up, people started rebuilding our windbreak, we started calving and people were there to help. Every time I would go do something and would come back, there’d be more people there to help.” It’s been months since the fire, but it is still such an emotional event to those affected, and Sheridan says it’s important to check on people in your community. “The grass will recover, but it might take years for those feelings to come up. You might not even think about it until much further down the road,” she shares. “Just watching my family and community come together, I expect this to be a pivotal point for us for years to come.” But that’s why community is important and why Sheridan wants to stay involved with people and her community, no matter where her career takes her. “I think some good examples of that are the things I’m already doing, like helping with Nebraska Youth Range Camp and working with the Nebraska Grassland Alliance, which brings together grassland organizations and ranchers to collaborate,” she says. “I also enjoy breeding heifers for neighbors as an AI tech. There are a lot of different ways to stay involved, but for me, they all come back to people and finding ways to help in some capacity.” ~NC~
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