Brady Campbell, Program Coordinator, OSU Sheep Team
This past weekend at the University of Findlay, 
sheep breeders, judges, and enthusiast alike joined for a day filled with wool sheep breed judging advice, knowledge, and experience. The focus of this workshop was to expose judgers how to appropriately evaluate fleeces and wool sheep breeds. Continue reading
David Rowe, General Manager, Mid-States Wool Growers
Food for thought as spring is upon us and the 2018 shearing season begins.
People raise sheep for a variety of reasons. Most people are drawn to a particular breed because they like the way they look,
they wish to show this breed, or they know someone who raises this breed. All are valid reasons to raise a specific breed of sheep, but the question on “how to make money” has not even been asked. As we know, the primary reason that most people raise sheep is to produce a successful lamb crop that can be marketed as well as a wool clip that can be sold as an additional product. Continue reading
Catie Noyes
(previously published in Farm and Dairy: February 28, 2018)
Ohio-based cooperative says good people, good service means loyal farmers.
(Image Source: Catie Noyes – Farm and Dairy)
For 100 years, Mid-States Wool Growers has been working with farmers big and small to help them market their wool. And for most producers marketing their wool through Mid-States Wool Growers Cooperative, it’s about loyalty.
Market prices are not the most ideal these days, but Stanley Strode, wool manager at Mid-States Wool Growers, does his best to make sure growers get a fair price for their wool. Continue reading
Don Van Nostran, Mid-States Wool Growers
Wool is wool is wool. Unfortunately, this is the feeling of many sheep producers when they look at this secondary product produced by the sheep. However, not all wool is the same and a producer has a big effect on the value of their wool clip just by their management practices. Continue reading