Friday, May 21, 2010

Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium

The 16th Annual Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium will be held during the three full days of November 11-13, 2010, at the Ramada Convention Center in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 

The symposium will include presentations by dairy sheep producers,  sheep milk processors, university scientists, and industry service personnel.  There will be a bus tour of a sheep dairy farm, a sheep milk farmstead cheese operation, and the Spooner Agricultural Research Station on Saturday, November 13.  The Spooner Station, operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madision, has the only dairy sheep research farm in North America.

The final program and registration information will be available on the Dairy Sheep Association of North America's  web site at http://www.dsana.org/ by the end of July.  For additional information, contact Claire  Mikolayunas at (608) 332-2889 or mikolayunas@wisc.edu.

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