Ken Green, a leader in the beef cattle industry in the High Plains, will be recognized as an Alumni Week Masters Participant Nov. 7-9.
Green also will present the inaugural Engler Lecture on the evening of Nov. 8. He is available for interaction with students in classroom settings, seminars or round table discussions on the 8th and 9th.
Contact Tom Field, tfield2@unl.edu, with requests. Additional details about the lecture and masters week activities will be forthcoming.
Green is managing general partner of Agra Holdings LP, a liquid feed manufacturer based in Firestone, Colo., with facilities in Minatare, Lexington, and Bradshaw, Neb., Fort Morgan and Lucerne, Colo., Garden City and Scott City, Kan., and Merrill, Iowa. He also is a partner in Finney County Feeders of Garden City, Kan., and Pruvit Cattle Colo.
He is on the board of directors of Premium Protein, a further possessed meats company which operates a beef abattoir and is highly focused on the international markets. He is a director for Consolidated Beef Producers, the nation's largest cattle marketing cooperative; partner and director of Valley Bank and Trust; partner and director of Kansas Feeds LLC, a liquid commodity trading company with facilities in Dodge City and Scott City, Kan., and Dalhart, Texas; president and director of Dinklage Feedyards Inc.; partner and director of Premier Cattle Co. of Syracuse, Kan.; president of Evergreen Ranch Inc., of Scottsbluff.
Green was raised in the Nebraska Panhandle and is a graduate of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He has been married for 38 years to Trish, his college sweetheart. They have two children and four grandchildren.
He and Trish have raised and shown American Quarter Horses for the past 15 years and have earned seven World Championships.