Wanek: Interest in ag careers growing amidst younger generation

  • Ellie Wanek is a student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently working a rotation program at Merck Animal Health in Elkhorn. She will be graduating from UNL in the spring and entering the ag workforce.
    Ellie Wanek is a student at University of Nebraska-Lincoln and is currently working a rotation program at Merck Animal Health in Elkhorn. She will be graduating from UNL in the spring and entering the ag workforce.
    Growing up her family’s farm run by her father and grandfather, Aurora High School graduate Ellie Wanek’s interest in agriculture goes back as far as she can remember.“My first influence would be my dad and grandpa, because they were the ones that ran the farm,” Wanek said. “I can’t remember a day after elementary and middle school, before things got busy in high school, where I...

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