Sheep Industry News January 2024

Breeders’ Directory

snyderranch56@yahoo.com Providing quality range rams to producers for three generations!

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. 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. PASKEY SUFFOLKS

541-258-2692 • ShepherdsLane.com Providing Teeswater, Gotland, and Valais Blacknose genetics to North America. Semen, embryos, purebred breeding stock. USDA Ex port Certified flock. TUNIS BEND IN THE CREEK FARM Gary and Sandy Sojka 1335 Creek Road, Middleburg, PA 17842 gsojka@bucknell.edu • 570-658-5355 Short film on WVIA (PBS) website: Saving the Tunis. Breeding and raising registered Tunis sheep since 1997. 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

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.

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

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 Jackie McMartin, Secretary/Treasurer 105 S. Eastern Ave., Hartford, SD 57033 605-553-3331 • ustargheesheep@gmail.com USTargheeSheep.org TEESWATER & VALAIS BLACKNOSE SHEPHERDS LANE OF OREGON, LLC Martin and Joy Dally 34503 Meridian Road, Lebanon, OR 97355

SNYDER RANCHES, LLC PO Box 363, Norwood, CO 81423 970-327-0271• Cell: 970-708-9906

Industry Calendar

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

JANUARY 2024 5-7 – Michigan Sheep Producers Association Shepherds Weekend – Lansing, Mich. – Samantha Ludlam at samaludl@gmail.com. 10 – Michigan State University Birth Management Course – Online – Events.ANR.MSU.edu/event.cfm. 10-13 – ASI Annual Convention – Sheraton Denver Downtown – SheepUSA.org. 16 – N.C. Small Ruminant Improvement Program Breeding Man agement Webinar – Online – Go.NCSU.edu/webinar_breeding. 17 – Michigan State University Birth Management Course – Online – Events.ANR.MSU.edu/event.cfm. 18-20 – Utah State University Shearing School – USU Animal Sci ence Farm in Wellsville, Utah – Eventbrite.com/e/usu-sheep- shearing-school-2024-registration-722911155727. 20 – North Dakota State University Extension Lambing Worshop – NDSU Carrington REC – NDSU.edu/agriculture/extension/events/ ndsu-extension-lambing-workshop. 24 – Michigan State University Birth Management Course – Online – Events.ANR.MSU.edu/event.cfm. 26-27 – 3Q Advanced Shearing Clinic – South Dakota – Mike Ha gens at 701-220-6636.

27 – Michigan State University Birth Management Course Work shop – MSU Sheep Teaching and Research Center – Events.ANR. MSU.edu/event.cfm. 31-Feb. 1 – 3Q Advanced Shearing Clinic – Montana – Brent Ro eder at 406-980-0719. FEBRUARY 2024 5-8 – 3Q Advanced Shearing Clinic – Oregon – Michael Estes at 541-788-4682. 13 – N.C. Small Ruminant Improvement Program Nutrition and Grazing Webinar – Online – Go.NCSU.edu/webinar_nutrition. 16-17 – Maryland Sheep Shearing School – Fairplay, Md. – MarylandSheepBreeders.org/activities/maryland-shearing-school. 24 – Indiana Shearing School – Purdue's Animal Science Research and Education Center Sheep Unit – IndianaSheep.com. MARCH 2024 5 – N.C. Small Ruminant Improvement Program Genetic Selectioin Webinar – Online – Go.NCSU.edu/webinar_genetics. 6-7 – Missouri Extension Shearing School – Jefferson City, Mo. – Jody Bruemmer at BruemmerJ@LincolnU.edu. 8-9 – New York Shearing School – Stone and Thistle Farm in East Meredith, N.Y. – Doug Rathke at 320-583-7281.

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