Sheep Industry News December 2021

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!

Preserving breed standards since 1983. No. 1 in parasite resistance, “Brahma of Sheep” High birth rates.

TEESWATER & VALAIS BLACKNOSE SHEPHERDS LANE OF OREGON, LLC Martin and Joy Dally 34503 Meridian Road, Lebanon, OR 97355 541-258-2692 • ShepherdsLane.com Providing Teeswater, Gotland, and Valais Blacknose genetics to North America. Semen, embryos, purebred breeding stock. USDA Export Certified flock. 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. TUNIS-SOUTHDOWN-SHROPSHIRE WISE FAMILY SHEEP

SUFFOLK BUNKER HILL FARM

William & Susan Shultz 3378 County Road 21, DeGraff, OH 43318 937-585-6626 • bunkerhillfarm@gmail.com Bunkerhill-farm.com Certified Scrapie Free/Codon tested/NSIP records. Specializing in terminal sire genetics focused on growth and carcass EPD’s. CULHAM & STEVENS 5108 E. Howell Road, Webberville, MI 48892 517-896-7378 • culhamab@aol.com NSIP since 1988. Home of the breed’s fastest growing sheep. Shelby, Scott & Lisa Paskey 5213 County Hwy TT, Cottage Grove, WI 53527 • Farm: 608-837-3725 Cell: 608-669-3996 • lrpaskey@gmail.com Established in 1976. Certified Scrapie Free Flock 2012. Export Certified Flock 2016. PASKEY SUFFOLKS

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. Maternal/Growth/Carcass/Wool traits. Above average USA Range Index. Microns 20-22. U.S. TARGHEE SHEEP ASSOCIATION Mardy Rutledge, Secretary PO Box 955, Chinook, MT 59523 702-292-5715 • ustargheesheep@gmail.com USTargheeSheep.org

Industry Calendar

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DECEMBER 2021 3-4 – Ohio Sheep Improvement Association's Buckeye Shepherd's Symposium – OARDC Small Ruminant Center in Wooster, Ohio – OhioSheep.org. 3-5 – Montana Wool Growers Association Convention – Billings, Mont. – MtSheep.org. 4 – Tennessee Sheep Producers Association Annual Meeting – Lebanon, Tenn. – TennesseeSheep.org. 6 – University of Maryland Introductory Small Ruminant Webinar Series: Marketing Them – Online – Go.umd.edu/srseries. 10-11 – North Dakota Lamb and Wool/Minnesota Lamb and Wool Convention – Fargo, N.D. – NDSheep.com or MLWP.org. 11-13 – South Dakota State Shearing School – Brookings, S.D. – Extension.SDState.edu/event/sdsu-sheep-shearing-school. 11-13 – Texas A&M Ultrasound Workshop: Pregnancy Detection – San Angelo, Texas – AgriLife.org/sheepandgoat/application. JANUARY 2022 4-7 – Texas A&M Sheep Shearing School – San Angelo, Texas – Jor dan Moody at jordan.moody@ag.tamu.edu. 4-7 – Texas A&M Wool Handling and Classing School – San An gelo, Texas – AgriLife.org/sheepandgoat/woolmohair. 7-9 – Michigan Sheep Producers Association Annual Shepherd's

Weekend – Lansing, Mich. – MISheep.org. 19-22 – ASI Annual Convention – San Diego, Calif. – Sheepusa.org. 20-22 – Utah State University Shearing School – USU Animal Sci ence Farm in Wellsville, Utah – Eventbrite.com/e/usu-sheep- shearing-school-2022-registration-168355254097. 27 – Colorado Farm Show Sheep Day – Island Grove Park in Gree ley, Colo. – ColoradoFarmShow.com. FEBRUARY 2022 18-19 – Maryland Sheep Breeders Association Beginners Shearing School – Fairplay, Md. – MarylandSheepBreeders.org/activities/ maryland-shearing-school. MARCH 2022 2-3 – Missouri Sheep Shearing School – Lincoln University in Jeffer son City, Mo. – Amy Bax at 573-681-6190 or Bax2@LincolnU.edu. APRIL 2022 21-23 – Shepherd's Cross Shearing School – Claremore, Okla. – ShepherdsCross.com. 22-23 – Tennessee Sheep Producers Shearing School – Middle Ten nessee State in Murfreesboro, Tenn. – TennesseeSheep.org.

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