One Nebraska farmer has put money and time into helping young farmers. At the Farmers for the Future Conference dinner held last February near St. Louis, the 200 people who heard keynote speaker Bob Dickey knew he is the president of the National CornGrowers Association. By the time Dickey was done sharing some ideas with the group, listeners knew what he had done to help several young farmers get a start. Most attendees probably weren't aware that just a few days before Dickey had undergone chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He felt fine, he told me when he arrived, and he wasn't slowing down.
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