Sheep Management 101 Workshop and Shepherd’s Symposium scheduled for January 8-9, 2010
The annual Virginia-North Carolina Shepherd’s Symposium will be held Saturday, January 9, 2010 at the Alphin-Stuart Livestock Arena on the campus of Virginia Tech. The one-day program will include educational sessions with a variety of production, management, and marketing topics. A lamb lunch will be included. The day prior, Friday, January 8, an all-day Sheep Management 101 Workshop will be conducted. This program is designed for new and beginning shepherds, and provides hands-on education on basic sheep management. On Friday evening, open meetings of the Virginia Sheep Producers Association and the Virginia Sheep Industry Council will be hosted. Program details and registration materials will be available in mid-November. For more information, contact Scott Greiner at 540-231-9163 or sgreiner@vt.edu.
Rights
Virginia Cooperative Extension materials are available for public use, re-print, or citation without further permission, provided the use includes credit to the author and to Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, and Virginia State University.
Publisher
Issued in furtherance of Cooperative Extension work, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Virginia State University, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture cooperating. Rick D. Rudd, Interim Director, Virginia Cooperative Extension, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg; Wondi Mersie, Interim Administrator, 1890 Extension Program, Virginia State, Petersburg.
Date
November 6, 2009