[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 80 (Wednesday, May 11, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4812]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         RECOGNIZING JAN LYONS

  (Mr. MANN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Jan Lyons, a great 
Kansan and this year's winner of the 2022 Jay B. Dillingham Award for 
Agricultural Leadership and Excellence.
  Jan is certainly a deserving recipient of such an honor. As a young 
person, she got started raising her own Angus cattle with a few of her 
dad's cows. In the 1970s, Jan and her husband, Frank, started the Lyons 
Ranch Angus cow herd south of Manhattan, Kansas, with some of the 
females originating from her father's herd.
  Today, Lyons Ranch consists of Jan and Frank, their daughter Amy and 
her husband, Carl, along with their sons and their wives. Jan's 
daughter, Debbie, also manages a cattle operation with her husband. Jan 
is the matriarch of a true family operation, which is why I am 
delighted to honor her here today.
  Jan was the first woman president of the Kansas Angus Association. 
She was also the president of the Kansas Livestock Association and the 
president of the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. With all of 
this on her plate, Jan has still found time to serve as a 4-H leader in 
Riley County where she teaches young people about the importance of 
agriculture.
  Jan has received a great deal of praise for being a trailblazing 
woman in agriculture. In response to this praise, Jan once said, Women 
have always been in agriculture--they just haven't always been the 
spokespeople. I would like to think that I am just a good rancher and a 
good leader, not a good woman rancher.
  Well, Jan, you are a great rancher and an outstanding leader. 
Congratulations on your well-deserved award and thank you for all of 
your hard work on behalf of Kansas agriculture.

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