MWGAJ BROWNABOUT USWOOL POOLMAKE IT WITH WOOLBREEDERSCALENDARCONVENTIONNEWS MAGAZINERAM / EWE SALELINKSMontana Wool Growers Association P.O. Box 1693 Helena, MT  59624       406-442-1330   mwga@mtsheep.orgMAKING THE NEWS:MONTANA WOOLGROWER’SAUGUST UPDATEWith fall approaching, all eyes turn to Miles City and the 90th Annual Montana RamSale and 2nd Annual Montana Ewe Sale.  Consignors are busy collecting the final dataand sorting rams and ewes for the sale.  We have a packed schedule planned for the16th and 17th of September in Miles City.Wednesday at 10 am an expanded MSU Sheep Seminar will be held at the Fort KeoghResearch Facility.  This year’s program will focus on sheep genetics, NSIP, and how
value based lamb marketing is working in the Superior plant.   Lunch and more comfortable
seats will be provided.  The seminar should run till about 3 pm and everyone should
have an hour to check into their motels and get ready for the social.  Back at the
fairgrounds , the social will kick off at 5 pm.  The Miles City Chamber will be fixing
a light supper of lamb sliders from Montana Natural Lamb in Big Timber and the Bison
Bar will have a cash bar.  This year we will be toasting Dr. Lisa Surber and honoring
her service to the sheep industry through the Montana Sheep Institute and managing
the Montana Wool Lab.  The ewe sale starts at 6 pm and we’ll have 1,300 of the best
ewes available in the state.  These are Montana born and bred ewes and ewe lambs
from reputation ranches.  Most of these ewes are out of rams purchased at the Montana
Ram Sale in previous years and many of the lots have NSIP data and are registerable.
On Thursday morning, some buyers will return to the fairgrounds earlier than others
to look over the 300 range ready rams for this year’s Montana Ram Sale.  This sale
has emerged as a national leader on providing scrapie codon, NSIP data, production
records, ribeye scans, and micron results so buyers know exactly what they’re bidding
on.  Lunch will in the sale barn this year from 11 am till 2 pm to make it easier
on buyers and consignors alike.  You’ll have your choice of either a premium braut
or BBQ lamb sandwich to choose from and all the net proceeds are being donated to
the new 4-H livestock building on the fairgrounds.  You can watch and bid live on
both sales at the Frontier Livestock website.  
Watch for catalogs to be online after September 1 on the Montana Woolgrowers and
Frontier Stockyards websites.  It looks to be a very busy week for ram and ewe buyers
around the region and I hope to see you in Miles City in September.
American  Sheep  Industry  Association       2014  U.S.  Sheep,  Lamb  &  Wool  Fast
Facts,   April  2014  
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Montana Sheep Institute
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