Speakers at <strong>the</strong> <strong>symposium</strong> site on Thursday and Friday and on <strong>the</strong> farm and cheese plant tours on Saturday Kate Arding, Consultant to <strong>the</strong> Dairy Business Innovation Center, Wisconsin <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, Madison, Wisconsin, USA Don Bliss, Parasitologist, Mid America Ag Research, Verona, Wisconsin, USA Sid Cook, Wisconsin Master Cheesemaker, Cheese Plant Owner and Marketer, Carr Valley Cheese, La Valle, Wisconsin, USA Kim Curtis, Dairy Sheep Producer and Sheep Milk Soap Processor and Marketer, Anselmo, Nebraska, USA Harold Gonyou, <strong>Animal</strong> Behaviorist, Prairie Swine Centre and <strong>the</strong> University <strong>of</strong> Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada Dan Guertin, Dairy Sheep Producer, Stillwater, Minnesota, USA Alice Henriksen, Dairy Sheep Producer, Stillwater, Minnesota, USA Dean and Brenda Jensen, Dairy Sheep Producers, Farmstead Cheesemakers and Marketers, Hidden Springs Farm and Creamery, Westby, Wisconsin, USA Tom and Laurel Kieffer, Dairy Sheep Producers, Strum, Wisconsin, USA Gilles Lagriffoul, Institut de l’Elevage - Comité National Brebis Laitières, INRA, Toulouse, France 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 Claire Mikolayunas, Ph.D. Research Assistant, <strong>Department</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Animal</strong> Sciences, University <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA John Henry and Mary Miller, Dairy Sheep Producers, Clover Dale Dairy Sheep Farm, Westby, Wisconsin, USA Holly Neaton, DVM and Sheep Producer, Watrertown, Minnesota, USA Jody Padgham, Midwest Organic and Sustainable Education Service, Spring Valley, Wisconsin, USA vii
Gold: Sponsors Babcock Institute for International Dairy Research and Development, University <strong>of</strong> Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA; http://babcock.cals.wisc.edu/ The Coburn Company, Inc., Whitewater, Wisconsin, USA; www.coburnco.com Silver: Grober Nutrition, Quaker City, Ohio, USA; www.grobernutrition.com Milk Products (Sav-a-Lam), Chilton, Wisconsin, USA; http://savacaf.com/ Wisconsin Sheep Dairy Cooperative, Strum, Wisconsin, USA; http://www.<strong>sheep</strong>milk.biz/ Bronze: Biotic Industries, Bell Buckle, Tennessee, USA; www.biotic.com/ The Country Today, Eau Claire, Wisconsin, USA; www.<strong>the</strong>countrytoday.com EZ <strong>Animal</strong> Products, LLC, Ellendale, Minnesota, USA; www.udderlyezllc.com Land O’Lakes <strong>Animal</strong> Milk Products, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA; http://www.lando<strong>lakes</strong>inc.com/ Nelson Manufacturing Company, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA; www.nelsonmfg.com Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, Old Chatham, New York, USA; http://www.black<strong>sheep</strong>cheese.com/ Shepherd’s Dairy, Anselmo, Nebraska, USA; www.shepherds<strong>dairy</strong>.com Small Ruminant Dairy Project, University <strong>of</strong> Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture, Burlington, Vermont, USA; http://www.uvm.edu/sustainableagriculture/smallrumi.html viii
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