OSU Sheep Team

Tim Fine, Miami County Program Assistant
The 2009 Appalachian Grazing Conference will be held at the Lakeview Resort in Morgantown, West Virginia on March 6&7. For more information and registration details, log onto http://www.wvca.us/grazing_conference.
Log on and get registered soon as the reduced lodging rate of only $76.00/single occupancy coupled with the conference registration of $75.00 [...]

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Roger High, Ohio Sheep Extension Program Specialist
This O.S.U. Extension Coordinated Program is an effort to provide outreach programs in several areas of sheep production. We invite sheep and goat producers from around Ohio to come to one or more of the educational sessions to learn more about different areas of sheep and goat production.
Programs [...]

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Rory Lewandowski, Extension Educator, Athens County
A small ruminant production school for sheep and goat producers will be held this winter in Athens County. The school will be held on 5 consecutive Tuesday evenings beginning on January 27 and continuing February 3, 10, 17 and 24. The school will be held at the Athens [...]

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Jeff McCutcheon, Extension Agent, Knox County
(Originally Published in Sheep Team Newsletter June 2003)
Many people while discussing lamb marketing or the outlook for lamb mention a bright spot in ethnic marketing. What does that mean? US Census data reveals that one in ten people living in this country were born in another country. [...]

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Dave Mangione, Extension Educator, Ross County (Originally Published in Sheep Team Newsletter June 2004)
Understanding the religious restrictions associated with the Muslim faith is important to accessing this consumer market. The method in which an animal is harvested for human consumption by someone of Muslim faith is very specific. The term Zalrihah is used to describe [...]

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By Roger A. High, State Sheep Extension Associate
(Originally Published in Sheep Team Newsletter February 2004)
Would we eat what we produce? We must remember each and every day as we go to the barn to feed our sheep, take care of our lambs, give medications, manage our flocks, and every other aspect of sheep [...]

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