[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 83 (Monday, May 16, 2022)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E507]
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                               JAN LYONS

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                            HON. TRACEY MANN

                               of kansas

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, May 16, 2022

  Mr. MANN. Madam 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 Lyons started the 
Lyons Ranch Angus cowherd south of Manhattan, Kansas, with some of the 
females originating from her father's herd. Today, Lyons Ranch consists 
of Jan and Frank and with their daughter Amy and her husband Karl, 
along with their sons with 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'm 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 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 good leader--not a good woman rancher.'' Well Jan, you are a great 
rancher and an outstanding leader.
  I congratulate Jan on her well-deserved award, and thank her for all 
her hard work on behalf of Kansas agriculture.

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