OSU Sheep Team

It is soon time for the 2009 Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium. This year’s Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium is being held in conjunction with the Small Ruminant Health Symposium, a program has been developed for both sheep and goat farmers. It will be on Saturday December 12, 2009 at the Ohio Department of Agriculture, Bromfield Building, 8995 East [...]

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On Tuesday November 17, 2009 Ohio Heartland Sheep Improvement Association (OHSIA) is sponsoring a “Sheep Mini-Course” from 7 – 9 PM in the Applewood Village Community Center on the campus of OSU/ATI, 1328 Dover Road, Wooster.   Dr. Steve Loerch of OSU/OARDC Department of Animal Science will make a presentation on sheep nutrition [...]

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Ohio Heartland Sheep Improvement Association is sponsoring a fall tour to the Knox Co. area on Saturday October 24, 2009.   The first stop will be at the Frank Stahl farm of Frazeysburg where they raise Shorthorn cattle, Percheron draft horses, goats, and Katahdin hair sheep.  Mixed species grazing along with rotational [...]

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Roger A. High, Executive Director OSIA
Who said there’s no such thing as a free lunch? Not Ohio’s farmers. In fact, they will be offering the chance for consumers statewide to win free groceries for breakfast, lunch, and dinner – for an entire year.
Beginning July 20, Ohio residents will be able to register for three grand [...]

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Tim Fine, Extension Program Assistant, Miami County
The Grazing Lands Conservation Initiative (GLCI) will be holding their annual conference on December 13-16 in Reno, Nevada.  For more information about the conference, including agenda and registration information, visit http://www.glci.org.

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Roger A. High, OSIA Executive Director
The 2009 Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium is once again going to hit the road!  After four years on the road and back into Columbus for the 2008 Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium, the 2009 Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium will once again hit the road for this annual shepherd’s event!  This year’s Buckeye Shepherd’s Symposium [...]

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Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Athens County
Reproductive performance is an important factor in determining profitability in the sheep flock. Most breeds of sheep have seasonal breeding patterns and the majority of flocks in Ohio are spring lambing.  In this scenario, the peak fertility of the ewe is from late September through November.  The breeding season will [...]

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Jeff McCutcheon, Extension Educator ANR, Morrow County
To survive the current feed economy livestock producers need to graze their livestock as long as they can.  Every day livestock are meeting their nutritional needs through grazing they are being fed as economically as possible.  Typically cattle producers utilize corn residue as a feed source but, in Ohio, [...]

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Joy Aufderhaar, Agriculture Program Assistant, OSU Extension Shelby County and Roger Bender, Shelby County Extension Educator, ANR
As you looked across your pasture and hay fields this past September you may have noticed not only were the surrounding trees turning fall colors but your red clover and alfalfa were also showing colors of fall? But this [...]

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Roger A. High, Executive Director, Ohio Sheep Improvement Association and Susan Schultz, President OSIA
OARDC Eastern Research Station in Caldwell, OH hosted the 2009 Ohio Sheep Day
The weather was absolutely gorgeous, with a glint of rain in the air all day, and finally it rained near the end of the program, which was very much appreciated [...]

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