LINCOLN, Neb. — Eighteen Nebraska LEAD 41 fellows recently returned from a trip to Albania, Greece, and Italy.
International seminars are an important part of our two-year leadership development program. In addition to gaining a better understanding of global agricultural challenges and opportunities, participants will also have the opportunity to meet with farmers, processors, and agricultural leaders from around the world.
“Our international learning/travel seminars provide a first-hand appreciation and understanding of our global community and the potential for people from all countries to collaborate,” said Terry Hegeny, Nebraska LEAD program director and group leader. The purpose is to do so.”
The trip, which ran from January 14 to 19, included visits to a variety of active farms, including a dairy farm, a sheep farm and an olive farm with more than 200,000 trees. . LEAD representatives also visited a chocolate processing facility, an olive oil factory, and several meat processing plants. Participants also had the opportunity to meet with world leaders in agriculture and trade at the U.S. Embassy in Rome, including Lora Herrera, regional director of the U.S. Soybean Expert Council.
“The people-to-people encounters provided the members of the Nebraska LEAD Group 41 with an opportunity to observe the characteristics, situations, and trends of Albania, Greece, and Italy, and to judge their relationship to our own problems and situations. ,” Hegeny said. “Through this experience, LEAD Fellows develop skills to identify comparisons and contrasts between the countries they study in areas such as agriculture, politics, economics, energy, religion, culture, history, technology, trade, food, art, philosophy, etc. Masu.”
The number of Nebraska LEAD 41 fellows who traveled to Albania, Greece, and Italy by hometown is as follows:
Albion: Amanda Berg
Arthur: Karina Christensen
Atkinson: Amber Shane
Battle Creek: Brian Schwartz
Brady: Steve Vaughn
Dickens: Caleb Ayers
Gordon: Anna Shadbolt
Hebron: Lance Pakhta.
Empire: Jacob Burke, John Lechtenberg
Carney: Makayla Fox, Rhett Montgomery
Lincoln: Tyler Wellman
Milford: Alyssa Troyer
North Bend: Joe Ruskamp
North Loop: Luke Zanger
Omaha: Easton Eggers.
Screenwriter: Chris Beerbohm
The Nebraska LEAD program includes Nebraskans currently active in production agriculture and agribusiness, and is supported by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources under the guidance of the Nebraska Agricultural Leadership Council. A collaborative two-year leadership development program.
For more information or to request an application to Nebraska LEAD 43, contact the Nebraska LEAD Program, 104 Agriculture Communications Building, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68583-0940, call 402-472-6810, or contact the Nebraska LEAD Program at Please contact us. Contact leadprogram@unl.edu. The application deadline is June 15th.