Jaclyn Wilson, along with her father Blaine owns and operate Wilson Flying Diamond Ranch located northeast of Lakeside, NE on the western edge of the Nebraska Sandhills. What is predominately a commercial cow/calf operation homesteaded in 1888, made news in 2021 as the first ranch in the world to tokenize feedlot steers for their direct-to-consumer beef business Flying Diamond Beef. In 2025 she started a purebred Angus operation in Uruguay. The ranch has received numerous accolades for work in both conservation and animal well-being; most recently being named the 2023 National Beef Quality Assurance Cow/Calf Producer of the Year out of over 700,000 beef cow operators in the United States under Jaclyn’s management. Jaclyn is the past Chair of International Trade for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association-the largest cattle industry association in the United States, served on the Nebraska Humanities Council and Foundation, the Trust in Food Advisory Board, and is a Nuffield 2024 International Farming Scholar. She is the current Vice President of Nebraska Cattlemen and in 2027 will become only the third female President in Nebraska Cattlemen’s 138-year history. She was named a 2016 Farm Journal Media 40 Under 40 in Agriculture Award winner for North America, a member of the National Beef Checkoff’s Inaugural Trailblazers Class, inducted into the Nebraska Agriculture Achievement Hall, included in the book Generations on the Land. In addition to her work in ranching and the beef industry, Jaclyn’s passion is interacting with other beef producers around the world. Her travels have led her to visit processing facilities on 6 continents along with representing the United States Beef industry on trade missions and conferences abroad. She has spoken in multiple countries focusing on woman in agriculture, technology, management systems, genetics, mental health and many others. Her most noticeable speaking engagements including presenting to government officials in Brussels, Belgium, and being one of two U.S. females asked to present in Vietnam and Indonesia for the United Nations 2026 Year of the Woman US Mission to ASEAN. She is able to share those experiences with the editorials she writes for weekly and biweekly publications that circulate to over 65,000 producers throughout the United States.