Farm Tour and Educational Workshop at the Center of the Nation NSIP Sale!
Join us for a farm tour of Mike Gillespie’s sheep operation on Thursday evening. Meet at the fairgrounds to carpool leaving at 4:30 p.m. to see his 200-head commercial Polypay operation.
An Educational Workshop will be held on Friday, July 29 in the Clay County Fairgrounds Event Center. The agenda will be:
1:00 p.m. – Welcome and Introduction – Rusty Burgett, NSIP Executive Director
1:15 p.m. – Sheep GEMS: Innovations for a more robust and climatically resilient U.S. sheep industry – Dr. Ron Lewis, University of Nebraska-Lincoln and NSIP Technical Advisor
2:30 p.m. – Utilizing technology to optimize flock nutrition – Kevin Vancura, Big Gain Animal Nutrition
3:30 p.m. – Data collection for the modern sheep enterprise- looking beyond the genetic evaluation – Rusty Burgett, NSIP Executive Director
Check out upcoming events related to NSIP in 2022! Click on the links below for more information!
NSIP Influenced Replacement Ewe Sale – June 20
NSIP Online Ram and Ewe Sale – July 11-13
Center of the Nation NSIP Sale, Spencer, IA – July 30
NSIP Influenced Replacement Ewe Sale – September 12
