Some legends develop their own history.
When the Nebraska LEAD Program was established in 1981, the founders recognized the critical need to develop the future leadership potential of our state not only for agriculture but for the state of Nebraska in general. They clearly focused upon the need to speed up the leadership development process to further develop those problem solvers, decision makers and spokespersons that would have to be in place in the years ahead if agriculture was to survive. Those founders picked up the threads from the vision of the future and developed a strong foundation for what was to become one of the finest programs of its kind in the country today. Strong programs, like ours, have always been based on the future. The Nebraska LEAD Program has been writing its own future for twenty years.