J & S Feedlot Inc.

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to jsfeedlot.com! This is the home of the J&S Feedlot business, managed and owned by Steve and Joan Ruskamp. Give us feedback on our message board.

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Joan is currently blogging for Common Ground Nebraska and Nebraska Soybean Board.

Joan is now a graduate of the LEAD program as a member of LEAD XXVIII. She enjoyed her international travel study seminar in January 2010 through the LEAD program. They traveled to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. You can learn more about the LEAD Program by going to their website lead.unl.edu.

Steve and Joan invite you to learn more about the culture in Peru through their daughter, Emily. Emily is a missionary through Incarnate Word Missionaries and will be spending two years in Chimbote, Peru. You can follow her experiences through her blog emilyruskamp.blogspot.com.

Steve and Joan will be in the Ag Pen Pal Program this year. Their pen pals will be from an elementary school in Lincoln, NE. If you would like to learn about becoming a pen pal you can contact Ellen Hellerich via email at Ellen@nefb.org. This program is sponsored by Nebraska Farm Bureau.

J & S Feedlot is committed to producing a safe, wholesome protein source with a daily protocol of keeping cattle as comfortable as possible. We are able to do this by implementing BQA measures. Every employee of J & S Feedlot is BQA certified. You can learn more about BQA at bqa.org. Owners, Steve and Joan Ruskamp are also members of Nebraska Cattleman, nebraskacattlemen.org and National Cattlemen's Beef Association, beef.org.

For more information about beef production, food safety and recipes check out beeffrompasturetoplate.org.

If you have concerns about environmental issues and how the livestock industry has been under attack you can go to heritage.org and hudson.org and search for research about environmental issues.

We encourage visitors to our site to get involved in the beef industry by enrolling in the MBA program. Steve and Joan Ruskamp have finished the online training and await the completion of the training with a one-day seminar and graduation. To get more information about the Master's of Beef Advocacy is nebeef.org.