Sheep Industry News May 2023

Breeders’ Directory

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

970-327-0271• Cell: 970-708-9906 snyderranch56@yahoo.com Providing quality range rams to producers for three generations!

TUNIS-SOUTHDOWN-SHROPSHIRE WISE FAMILY SHEEP

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. 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

Industry Calendar

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

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 – South Dakota Sheep Growers Association 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. 20 – Western Montana Sheep and Goat Workshop – Kalispell (Mont.) Agricultural Education Center – docs.google.com/ forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfLJ1mOd-6Lpl69xV9heFIXV8CPB4Ertre1gRP f41XIujjBiQ/viewform. 27 – Northwest Lamboree – Goldendale, Wash. – BrownPaper Tickets.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. JUNE 2023 2-3 – 73rd Annual West Virginia Purebred Sheep and Goat Show & Sale – Tri-County Faigrounds in Petersburg, W.V. – WVSheepand GoatSale.com. 8-11 – Estes Park Wool Market (& Workshops) – Estes Park, Colo. – EstesParkEventscomplex.com/wool-market.html.

11 – New York State Fiber Conference – Butternut Hill Camp ground in Bouckville, N.Y. – caahp.ccext.net/civicrm/event/ info?reset=1&id=170. 14 – UI-USU-SDSU Extension Sheep and Goat Monthly Webinar – Online – UIdaho.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWiLWKvuS2 dx3AJnWotNw. 23-25 – Black Sheep Gathering – Albany, Ore. – BlackSheep Gathering.org. 23-25 – Houston Fiber Fest – Cypress, Texas - HoustonFiberFest.com. 24-25 – Beginning Shepherding and Pasture Management Work shop – Bellingham, Wash. – LydiasFlock.com. 25 – Michigan Sheep Producers Association Picnic and Tour – Ka lamazoo, Mich. – Samantha Ludlam at samaludl@gmail.com. 30-July 2 – Wyoming Sheep & Wool Festival - South Lincoln Train ing and Events Center in Kemmerer, Wyo. – WyomingSheepand WoolFestival.com. JULY 2023 6 - Michigan Sheep Producers Association Online Sale – Online – Samantha Ludlam at samaludl@gmail.com. 7-8 – 102nd Idaho State Ram Sale – Filer, Idaho – IdahoWool Growers.org. 9-13 – NLFA Howard Wyman Sheep Industry Leadership School – Columbus, Ohio – LambFeedersUSA.org. 12 - UI-USU-SDSU Extension Sheep and Goat Monthly Webinar – Online – UIdaho.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWiLWKvuS2 dx3AJnWotNw. 15 – Washington State Sheep Producers Ram & Ewe Sale – Moses Lake, Wash. – WSSP.org. 15-16 – Copper K Fiber Festival – Copper K Barn in Whitehall, Mont. – CopperKFiberFestival.com. 22 – South Dakota Sheep Growers Association Premium Yearling Ewe Sale – Huron, S.D. – SDSheepGrowers.org.

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