Bill Dicke was recently inducted into the Nebraska Hall of Agricultural Achievement for his contributions to the cattle feeding industry in Nebraska and beyond.
The ceremony was held on March 31st in the Great Plains Room in the University of Nebraska East Union.
Dicke, a native of Wauneta, Neb., is a two-time graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, earning his B.S. in Animal Science and Ag Economics in 1972 and his M.S. in Ruminant Nutrition in 1974. He later started Cattlemen's Consulting Service in 1981 out of McCook, Neb., before moving the business to Lincoln, Neb., and later would be known as Dicke Consulting, LLC in 2015. in The business went on to become one of the largest private feedlot consulting practices in the United States, influencing over 1 million heads of cattle on feed and earned him the 2021 “Legends of Feedlot Nutrition” by the Plains Nutrition Council at Texas A&M University.
Source: unl.edu
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