Sheep Industry News April 2023

Breeders’ Directory

SEASON’S BOUNTY FARM SUFFOLKS Radell & Sarah Schrock 2373 Harpine Hwy, Harrisonburg, VA 22802 radellschrock@yahoo.com • 540-908-5399 SeasonsBountyFarm.com Thick, meaty suffolks. Annual Production Sale is the first Saturday in September. SNYDER RANCHES, LLC PO Box 363, Norwood, CO 81423 970-327-0271• Cell: 970-708-9906 snyderranch56@yahoo.com Providing quality range rams to producers for three generations!

Maternal/Growth/Carcass/Wool traits. Above average USA Range Index. Microns 20-22.

541-258-2692 • ShepherdsLane.com Providing Teeswater, Gotland, and Valais Blacknose genetics to North America. Semen, embryos, purebred breeding stock. USDA Export Certified flock.

SIMS SHEEP CO., LLC Mike Sims PO Box 807, Evanston, WY 82931 307-679-1502

TUNIS-SOUTHDOWN-SHROPSHIRE WISE FAMILY SHEEP

We have yearling rams, lamb rams, yearling ewes and ewe lambs. Targhee cross. Finest blood lines in the Western United States. U.S. TARGHEE SHEEP ASSOCIATION Mardy Rutledge, Secretary PO Box 955, Chinook, MT 59523 702-292-5715 • ustargheesheep@gmail.com USTargheeSheep.org TEESWATER & VALAIS BLACKNOSE SHEPHERDS LANE OF OREGON, LLC Martin and Joy Dally 34503 Meridian Road, Lebanon, OR 97355

405 Beaver Dam Road, Spring Mills, PA 16875 814-574-9470 • wisefamilysheep@gmail.com YouTube: Wise Family Sheep Serving the lamb industry since 1973. WENSLEYDALE HORSEFEATHER RANCH Terisue & Craig Harvey 1060 Fox Canyon, Arroyo Grande, Ca 93420 805-459-8248 • horsefeatherranch.net Black & White High percentage breeding stock. Raw, milled and finished fleece.

TARGHEE HUGHES NEWFORD CO. John and Betty Sampsel

Box 558, Stanford, Mt 59479 406-566-2700 • hnco@mtintouch.net Yearling Rams and Ewes. NSIP data since 1987.

Industry Calendar

Submit calendar items to kyle@SheepUSA.org See the complete list of events at SheepUSA.org

APRIL 2023 3-8 – Washington State Shearing School – Grant County Fair grounds in Moses Lake, Wash. – extension.wsu.edu/grant/ livestockanimal-science/washington-state-shearing-school/ or email smithsm@wsu.edu. 7-8 – Tennessee Sheep Producers Association Shearing School – Tennessee Livestock Center at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tenn. – contact Mark Powell at shepherdboy1@ yahoo.com or 615-519-7796. 9-15 – Sheep Shearing and Basic Care 101 – UC Hopland Research and Extension Center – HREC.UCANR.edu/?calitem=546335. 10-14 – University of California Cooperative Extension Shearing School – Ukiah, Calif. – Surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?survey number=40112 12 – Small Ruminant Webinar Series: Grilling and Cooking Lamb – Online – Extension.WISC.edu/agriculture/farm-ready-research. 12 – UI-USU-SDSU Extension Sheep and Goat Monthly Webinar – Online – UIdaho.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWiLWKvuS2 dx3AJnWotNw. 12-16 – Lambing Camp – Bellingham, Wash. – LydiasFlock.com. 13-15 – Shepherd's Cross Sheep Shearing School – Claremore, Okla. – ShepherdsCross.com. 14-15 – National Dorper Show & Sale – Duncan, Okla. – Dorper Sheep.org. 15 – Washington State Sheep Producers Lambing School – Fuestel Farms in Lamont, Wash. – WSSP.org. 15 – South Central Katahdin Association Texas Sheep Field Day – Gatesville (Texas) Civic Center – Eventbrite.com/e/texas-sheep field-day-tickets-456185070827. 16-22 – Sheep Shearing and Basic Care 101 – UC Hopland Research

and Extension Center – HREC.UCANR.edu/?calitem=546335. 22-23 – Lambing Camp Weekend Workshop – Bellingham, Wash. – LydiasFlock.com. 27-29 – Shepherd's Cross Woolly Weekend – Claremore, Okla. – ShepherdsCross.com. 28-29 – Yellow Rose Fiber Fiesta – Seguin, Texas – YellowRoseFiberFiesta.com. MAY 2023 6 – 97th Annual Cloverdale Ram Sale – Cloverdale (Calif.) Citrus Fairgrounds – email sierrabruhn@gmail.com. 6-7 – 50th Annual Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival – West Friendship, Md. – SheepandWool.org. 8 – SDSGA Online Ewe Lamb Sale & Junior Futurity Show – Online – SDSheepGrowers.org. 10 – UI-USU-SDSU Extension Sheep and Goat Monthly Webinar – Online – UIdaho.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWiLWKvuS2 dx3AJnWotNw. 13-14 – New Hampshire Sheep & Wool Festival – Deerfield (N.H.) Fairgrounds – NHSWGA.org/nh-sheep-wool-festival. 19-20 – Crazy Mountain Fiber Fest – Big Timber, Mont. – BigTimber.com/chamber-information/fiber-fest. 27 – Northwest Lamboree – Goldendale, Wash. – BrownPaperTickets.com/event/5749160. 27-28 – 47th Annual Massachusetts Sheep & Woolcraft Fair – Cum mington (Mass.) Fairgrounds – MASheepWool.org. 27-28 – Great Lakes Fiber Show – Wayne County Fairgrounds in Wooster, Ohio – GreatLakesFiberShow.org. 31-June 4 – Contemporary Handweavers of Texas – Sugar Land, Texas – WeaveTexas.org.

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