jaclyn wilson
Partner Wilson Flying Diamond Ranch/Flying Diamond Beef
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Jaclyn Wilson, along with her father Blaine own 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.
The ranch has received numerous accolades for work in both conservation and animal well-being, including being the inaugural Leopold Conservation award winner for Nebraska, and 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.
Jaclyn just finished serving as the Chair of International Trade for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association-the largest cattle industry association in the United States, and currently serves on the Nebraska Humanities Council and Foundation, the Trust in Food Advisory Board, and is a Nuffield 2024 International Farming Scholar.
She was named a 2016 Farm Journal Media 40 Under 40 in Agriculture Award winner, a member of the National Beef Checkoff’s Inaugural Trailblazers Class, inducted into the Nebraska Agriculture Achievement Hall, and was 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 also recently started a purebred Angus business in Uruguay.
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.
