Making history at Wilson Ranch

Jun 9, 2021
Jun 9, 2021

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Jaclyn Wilson

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As I mentioned in last weeks’ article, we had a special project that was occurring at our operation on Monday, June 7. That was taking a set of 20 head of feeder steers, implanting them with a Bluetooth health sensor and GPS monitor and tokenizing them. If you have to Google what that all means, please don’t feel bad. I’m pretty sure that my Google app caught on fire over the last couple of days from overuse.

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Jaclyn Wilson is more than a rancher, raising Red Angus cattle at Wilson Ranch near Lakeside, Nebraska. She’s an artist with a welder’s torch. She holds leadership positions with several agriculture organizations. She can be reached at jaclyn@flyingdiamondgenetics.com. This column represents the views of one person and are not necessarily the opinion of the Midwest Messenger.