Southeast Community College Agriculture Instructor Goes Honored by American Gelbvieh Association

Mark Goes, an instructor in Southeast Community College’s Agriculture Business & Management Technology program, is the 2012 American Gelbvieh Association Member of the Year. The AGA Member of the Year award is presented annually to an outstanding member who gives their time, talent and dedication to further the improvement of their state and national association. Goes was honored at the AGA’s annual convention in Denver earlier this year.

Goes, from Odell, has been very active in the Gelbvieh breed and the livestock industry. He has been a member of the Gelbvieh Association in Nebraska since 1987 and the AGA since 1988 as owner of M&P Gelbvieh, which he owns with his wife Patti and daughter Tricia. Recently, Goes also was elected the 28th president of the AGA.

Goes has been a director for seven of the past eight years with GAIN, where he worked to create the GAIN field representative position.

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