Service to Agriculture Award 2014 - Bill Webster
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on Feb 18, 2015
Myra Monfort-Runyan presented the Service to Agriculture award to Bill Webster, who studied Animal Sciences at Colorado A&M back in 1951, but never finished his degree. He went on to become President of his family businesses, Webster Land and Cattle Company, farming 2500 acres of irrigated corn, alfalfa and hay, and Webster Feedlots, Inc., feeding 25,000 head...
He also served 12 years as Chairman of the Colorado State Agriculture Commission and as president of the Colorado Cattle Feeders Association. From 1990-1998 he was a Weld County Commissioner and from 1998-2001 he represented Weld County in the Colorado House of Representatives, being named Legislator of the Year by the Colorado Livestock Association, and Legislator of the Year by the Colorado Conservation Association. Then in 2014, working with Rotarian and Animal Sciences Professor Emeritus David Ames, and with his children, grandchildren and wife of 60 years, Sylvia, in attendance, Bill earned the Bachelor of Sciences degree started 63 years earlier. Never too late!