Sheep Industry News October 2024

Breeders’ Directory

BUNKER HILL FARM

for three generations!

TEXEL TEXEL SHEEP BREEDERS SOCIETY Cinda Baird, Secretary 18700 CR 216, Arcadia, OH 44804 419-722-7230 • secretary@texelsusa.org TexelsUSA.org The breed with the remarkable muscle develop ment. 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. Nate, Amanda, Abi & Jackson Houser 205 Patton Rd., Pikeville, TN 37367 931-267-1802 • 423-605-7511 White Dorpers raised on pasture with profitabil ity in mind on an accelerated lambing schedule. Performance, parasite resistance, and productiv ity data available. We also have herding Corgis, Karakachan guard dogs and guardian donkeys occasionally available. TUNIS-SOUTHDOWN-SHROPSHIRE WISE FAMILY SHEEP WHITE DORPERS ROCK SOLID RANCH

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. PASKEY SUFFOLKS 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 4260 Cromer Rd., Harrisonburg, VA 22802 radellschrock@yahoo.com • 540-908-5399 SeasonsBountyFarm.com Thick, meaty suffolks. Next Annual Production Sale is August 31st, 2024 at the farm. 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

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

Industry Calendar

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

OCTOBER 2024 4-5 – National Ram Sale – Wasatch Events Center in Heber City, Utah – NationalRamSale.com. 5 – Midwest Hair Sheep Sale – Washington County Fairgrounds in Salem, Ind. – Extension.Purdue.edu/news/county/washington/2024/ 09/midwest-hair-sheep-consignments.html. 5-6 – Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival – Tunbridge (Vt.) Fair grounds – VTSheepandWoolFest.com. 9 – IU-USU-SDSU Extension Sheep & Goat Monthly Webinar – uidaho.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWiLWKvuS2-dx3AJnWotNw. 9 – Utah Ram Sale – Spanish Fork, Utah – UtahRamSale.org. 12-14 – South Dakota State University Sheep Shearing School – SDSU Sheep Research and Teaching Unit in Brookings, S.D. – Extension.sdstate.edu/event/sheep-shearing-school 19 – Pennsylvania Sheep & Wool Growers Symposium and Annual Meeting – Lebanon County (Penn.) Fairgrounds – PASheep.com. 24 – Live Lambing Class – Pluth Homestead Ranch in Clearlake Oaks, Calif. – Docs.Google. com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSevO6L

mV4FjklMM3nHX_uWoEHcWPyUgB2ofnAK6MooucTVGIQ/ viewform. 31-Nov. 2 – West Central States Wool Growers Convention – Boise, Idaho – IdahoWoolGrowers.org. NOVEMBER 2024 1-2 – Ozark Fiber Fling – Meramec Baptist Retreat Center in Steel ville, Mo. – OzarkFiberFling.com. 7-9 – Dairy Sheep Association of North American Symposium – Chi cago, Ill. – DSANA.org. 8-9 – Washington State Sheep Producers Convention – Everett, Wash. – WSSP.org. 13 – IU-USU-SDSU Extension Sheep & Goat Monthly Webinar – uidaho.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fWiLWKvuS2-dx3AJnWotNw. 23-25 – North Dakota State University Extension Sheep Shearing School and Certified Wool Classing School – Hettinger (N.D.) Re search Extension Center – christopher.schauer@ndsu.edu or 701-567 4323.

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