The annual Great Lakes Dairy Sheep symposium will be held in Wisconsin this week to offer practical instruction on sheep dairy farming. The November 4-6 event is scheduled to be held in Hudson, where attendees will learn from university and industry scientists, progressive producers and sheep milk processors, as well as tours of sheep dairy farms and a farmstead sheep milk processing plant.

Organizers say the dairy sheep industry is growing in North America. In the 2004 annual specialty cheese competition of the American Cheese Society, a 100-percent sheep milk cheese took top honors. 'Gran Canaria,' produced by master cheesemaker, Sid Cook of LaValle, Wis., topped 725 other cow, goat, and sheep milk entries from throughout the U.S. The symposium has been an important event for potential producers and processors seeking a better understanding of the industry and for current producers and processors looking for new ideas to improve their operations.

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Source: Wisconsin Ag Connection
November 1, 2004

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