Calendar of Events

July 10 – Sale day for Illinois Ram Test.  For more information contact Mark Hoge, 309-298-1611 or MD-Hoge@wiu.edu or visit: http://www.wiu.edu/ag/ramtest/      

July 21 - Iowa Sheep and Wool Promotion Board meeting will be held at Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa.

August 7 – 5th Annual Center of the Nation National Sheep Improvement Program (CNSIP) Seminar and Sale.  Clay County Fairgrounds in Spencer, Iowa.  For catalog and information contact: Conover Auction Service at conover@conoverauction.com or call 641-227-3537. Catalog online in mid-July at www.conoverauction.com.

August 12 - 22 - Iowa State Fair Lamb Foodstand at the Iowa State Fair will be open all days of the fair.  If you know which day you would like to help please contact Amanda Luitjens at 712-348-3158, aluitjens@gmail.com or info@iowasheep.com.  Don’t let your favorite day be taken!

November 5 -7 - 2nd Annual Iowa Wool Gatherers' Retreat, Barn on the Bluff, Elkader, Iowa.  Details will be posted at www.iowasheep.com as they become finalized.  Contact Margie Meehan with questions at tipperaryfiberstudio@gmail.com  or 563-926-2573.

November 11-13 -16th Annual Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium, Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Program includes presentations, a bus tour of sheep dairy farm, a cheese operation and the Spooner Ag Research Station, the only dairy sheep research farm in North America.  Final program and registration forms will be at www.dsana.org by the end of July.  For more information contact Claire Mikolayunas at (608) 332-2889 or mikolayunas@wisc.edu.

Do you have an event that you would like to place in the Lamb & Wool newsletter?  Please send information by the 15th of the month preceding publication date of newsletter.  Submit via email at info@iowasheep.com or phone 515-924-3050.