The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) announces that Dr. Dana Hanson is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Extension-Industry Service Award. The award was established in 1965 to recognize outstanding achievement in meat science extension and service to the industry and is sponsored by the Foundation for Meat & Poultry Research & Education. Dr. Hanson will be honored at an awards banquet during the AMSA 71st Reciprocal Meat Conference on Tuesday, June 26, 2018, in Kansas City, Missouri.
Agriculture has been a part of Dr. Hanson’s life from the day he was born. Dr. Hanson is the fifth generation to grow up on his family’s farm in southeastern Wisconsin. Production agriculture, teaching, and extension are careers that can be traced back many generations in the Hanson family. This ideal of promoting and communicating agriculture is truly found in his DNA. Dana’s father was a vocational agriculture teacher and taught him the value of being part of something as important as agriculture; walks in the pasture to check cows regularly turned into classroom lessons.