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Pictured here on Signal Hill at the recent Canadian Sheep Federation (CSF) semi annual AGM held in St. John's, NF are representatives from the Canadian provinces. The sheep industry also hosted a social for the provincial ag ministers meetings which were held at the same time in St. John's. By hosting the social and having direct contact with the ministers, many important sheep issues were brought to light for the ministers by the provincial sheep directors that sit on the CSF board. Representing Saskatchewan at this event were Randy Jordan of Raymore, SK and Dwane Morvik of Eastend, SK.  6/26/2006

 


Visiting the ranch of Dwane & Jaime Morvik of Eastend are the Mongolian herders with their translator.
Left to right are:BAOLURI - extension trainee, WURITU, EERDUNTAOGETAO, WULANQIQIGE, MENGHENASHUN (herders) and WANGXIUMEI (Vicky the translator) 6/7/2006

 

 

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Executive Director News by Gord Schroeder
 

 

The industry is right in the middle of lambing as I write this article.  I've heard from producers with all kinds of different experiences and lambing percentages this year.  Some disappointing but it seems that for the most part numbers are good.  One producer called me - she had a ewe with 6 live lambs, another producer told me he lambed out 175 Canadian Arcott based ewes, he had only 13 singles and 44 ewes which had either triplets or quads - the rest were twins and they were good lambs.  One common thing I am hearing is that proper records and good culling have really paid off.  Whatever your numbers and stories are I really hope you are enjoying this time and that things are going well.

Colleen Sawyer Appreciation Dinner will be held on Saturday July 26th in conjunction with the Grasslands Sheep Show and Sale to be held in Drake.  Colleen has spent many years serving our industry; please plan to attend and show your appreciation.  As well, if you have any good pictures of Colleen and her involvement in the sheep industry, please send them to the office.

Please mark July 25-26 on your calendar.  These are the dates for the Grasslands Show and Sale in Drake.  The committee is working hard to add more demonstrations, trade booths and sheep entries to the show.  It will be a great weekend. 

You should be aware by now that western Canada is having a serious problem with Taenia Ovis (dog tapeworm), this tapeworm causes sheep measles, which leads to lamb carcasses being condemned at slaughter facilities.  This is a very serious situation and producers need to treat their dogs with a proper wormer that will take care of the tapeworm.  Please talk to your local vet about this.  One hint you may ask them about is if Safeguard will do the trick.  Here is a story from one producer I talked to; he had shipped 48 lambs and 17 of them had been condemned.  Lambs were traced back to the producer and the cost to him was huge.  As well there is the cost to lamb buyers, these costs will be passed on to producers by was of prices to allow for condemns.  Please treat your dogs!!

Producers continue to call us on the market outlook.  If we knew this for sure we would be rich!!  However, I will say this; there is good reason to believe the prices will remain strong.  things like feed costs and the Canadian dollar could have a negative effect on prices.  Supply is short so prices should remain strong.

We are in the process of implementing some changes to how we market animals through the board.  We would like to establish a more regular marketing schedule.  So what we are proposing is that every first and third Monday of the month we will accept bids from buyers for the lambs and sheep we have on offer with the option of taking any additional lambs offered during that week at the same price.  Assembly would happen the following week.  In this way producers know on a more regular basis when they can expect to market animals.  As well, if the buyer is wanting more lambs than are offered at that price producers can phone the office following the bid and book lambs knowing the price has been set.  Basically, we will have a lamb auction twice a month with the possibility of producers being able to book lambs after the price has been set.  There will be some exceptions to this to allow for holidays and times of the year when there are very few lambs being offered for sale.  Call the office for more information.

On a final note - I met with our new Agriculture Minister, we wanted to brief him on the lamb industry and open doors to working together with the Ministry.  As a follow up to this meeting I was asked to attend a meeting with several Branch Managers.  The intent of this meeting was to discuss ways in which we could work together more closely to build the Saskatchewan lamb industry.  We look forward to this relationship.


 

 

 

 

     

 

 

 



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