Other honors include receiving the 1996 Education and Research Person of the Year recognition from the Nebraska Fertilizer and Ag Chemical Institute and the Award for Agricultural Excellence from the Midlands chapter of the National Agri-Marketing Association. Dickey was a national co-leader of an extension initiative on managing change in agriculture. He has received the Nebraska Cooperative Extension Association's Distinguished Service Award. He twice has won the Excellence in Team Programming Award from NU Cooperative Extension. NU's extension dean heads a statewide program.
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