Gene Schriefer
Gene and Ruth Schriefer operate a 400 head commercial flock of crossbred whitefaced ewes in southwest Wisconsin. The primary focus is on efficient production and harvesting of forages with sheep via Management Intensive Grazing. Permanent pasture figures heavily in the grazing system, however there is also a very useful place for annual and perenniel forages in their grazing system to increase pounds of lamb produced per acre, extend the grazing season, and reduce costs.
Gene Schriefer
418 Doty St.
Mineral Point, WI 53565
Pnone: 608-987-4337
Email: sheepfarm@charter.net
Janet McNally
Janet McNally taught the adult Lamb and Wool program for 14 years at Pine City
Technical College, Pine City, Minnesota. She now is a sheep and beef
producer in Hinckley MN utlizing a pasture-based system that includes pasture
lambing and winter grazing. In 1991 Janet McNally and Brooke
Rodgerson embarked on a sustainable ag study to see if winter grazing was feasible
with sheep in Minnesota. The study was a 3-year project, and
included measuring forage quality, snow depths, and animal performance. Winter
grazing was so succesful Janet has never again fed hay in the fall, even in
drought years!
Janet McNally
Tamarack Lamb and Wool
Box 63, Rt. 2
Hinckley, MN 55037
phone: 320-384-7262
email: tamarack@pinenet.com
web page: http://www.pinenet.com/~tamarack/homepage.html
Bob graduated for the University of Minnesota College of Veterinary Medicine in 1982. He completed a food animal (dairy, beef and sheep) internship at the University of Idaho, Caine Veterinary Teaching Center in 1983. Bob has been in private practice in Wisconsin since 1983, dealing primarily with dairy cattle. He has been at the Clintonville Veterinary Services since 1985. He and his wife, Penny, have had a grass-based sheep enterprise since 1988. Their flock of 85 crossbred ewes carries the Booroola gene, which increases its prolificacy.
Robert and Penny Leder
Bear Creek Sheep Station
N8714 Cty Hwy T
Bear Creek, WI 54922
phone: 715-752-3459
Fax: 715-823-1431
email: leder@dotnet.com
Bob is currently a Wool Quality Improvement Consultant for the American Sheep Industry Association and a sheep producer in West Central Minnesota. His consulting efforts focus on raw wool issues from production and quality improvement, to domestic wool marketing and new technology. From 1992 to 1997, he was the raw wool services director for the ASI, where he helped develop and implement the ASI Wool Quality Improvement Program including the Wool Handling Schools, Certified Wool Classer Program and Wool Pool Marketing efforts.
Bob received his Undergraduate training at the University of Minnesota and
his Masters Degree in Animal Science from Montana State University in Bozeman,
MT.
Kreg Leymaster grew up on a dairy and grain farm near Cedar Falls, Iowa. He earned a B.S. degree from Iowa State in 1973, a M.S. degree from Kentucky with Dr. Fred Thrift in 1974, and a Ph.D. degree from Ohio State with Drs. Walt Harvey and Andy Swiger in 1977. In 1978, he joined ARS at the U.S. Meat Animal Research Center. He uses multidisciplinary approaches to address relevant genetic problems by directing innovative, sound, and thorough research. His research has focused on estimation of genetic effects between and within breeds of sheep and swine, selection for ovulation rate and uterine capacity in swine, and investigation of the callipyge mutation in sheep.
Kreg Leymaster
U.S. Meat Animal Research Center
P.O. Box 166
Clay Center, NE 68933
United States
Phone: 402-762-4172
Fax: 402-762-4173
e-mail: leymaster@email.marc.usda.gov