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Program of Events (cont.)
Friday, November 10, 2006
11:15 a.m. Dairy Sheep Grazing Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Claire Mikolayunas, Ph.D. Research Assistant, Department of Animal
Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
Noon Lunch
1:30 p.m. Effect of Prepartum Photoperiod on Prolactin and Milk Production of
Dairy Ewes
Claire Mikolayunas, Ph.D. Research Assistant, Department of Animal
Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
2:15 p.m. Sheep Behavior and Its Use in Sheep Management
Harold Gonyou, Animal Behaviorist, Prairie Swine Centre and the University
of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
3:00 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. A Continuum of Dairy Sheep Operations, Products, and Marketing
Strategies
Moderators:
Alice Henriksen Dairy Sheep Producer, Stillwater, Minnesota, USA
Laurel Kieffer, Dairy Sheep Producer, Strum, Wisconsin, USA
Panelists:
Kim Curtis, Dairy Sheep Producer and Sheep Milk Soap Processor and
Marketer, Anselmo, Nebraska, USA
Javier Pérez Rocha Malcher, Organic Dairy Sheep Producer and Sheep
Milk Cheesemaker and Marketer, El Marques, Querétaro, México
Jodi Ohlsen Read, Dairy Sheep Producer and Sheep Milk Cheesemaker and
Marketer, Nerstrand, Minnesota, USA
6:30 p.m. Symposium Banquet (separate ticket required)
Midway Hotel Riverfront Resort, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA
Saturday, November 11, 2006
8:30 a.m. –
4:30 p.m.
Board Buses for Farm and Cheese Plant Tours
Clover Dale Dairy Sheep Farm, Westby, Wisconsin, USA – John Henry
and Mary Miller
Hidden Springs Farm and Creamery, Westby, Wisconsin, USA – Dean and
Brenda Jensen
Carr Valley Cheese, Mauston, Wisconsin, USA – Sid Cook
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