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2012 winners were Wayne Fahsholtz, Padlock Ranch of Ranchester, WY (beef); Logan Bower, Pleasant View Farms of Blain, PA (dairy); Morris Larson, General Manager of Spencer Livestock Sales, Spencer, IA (Marketer of the Year); and Dr. Dee Griffin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln (Educator of the Year).
Educator of the Year
Dr. Dee Griffin, University of Nebraska
Dr. Dee Griffin has been a BQA Certified Trainer in Nebraska and served on Nebraska’s BQA Advisory Board since the program’s inception in 1987. He started the first “Train the Trainer” sessions in Nebraska and has traveled from one end of the state to the other educating BQA Trainers. Dee has single-handedly trained 250 BQA Trainers in Nebraska and has personally certified over 1,000 producers.
One nominator says of Dee: “In the early 1980s, the beef industry realized a need for Beef Quality Assurance. Dr. Griffin was one of the pioneers that helped that idea become a reality. Dr. Griffin volunteered his time and resources to help develop the BQA standards and program. Dr. Griffin never gave up, and to this day he continues to help educate, advise and promote Beef Quality Assurance.”
The National BQA award winners are selected annually by a committee of representatives from universities, state beef councils and cattle industry groups.
Watch videos of each producer BQA award winner on the BQA YouTube page.
For more information about the beef checkoff or BQA program, visit www.bqa.org, www.dbqa.org or www.MyBeefCheckoff.com.