Schedule

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The DSANA Symposium Committee is developing a tremendous schedule for the 2024 Symposium. Details on topics, speakers and producer panels will be updated below as they are confirmed.

Tentative Presentations Topics on November 7th & 8th:

  • Economics of feeding high and low producing dairy ewes

  • Supplementing dairy ewes on pasture

  • Record-keeping for the breeding program

  • Bottled milk for retail and wholesale

  • How sheep milk differs from other milks in human nutrition

  • Diversifying your sales through direct-to-consumer channels

  • The effect of high-SCC colostrum on replacement ewe lambs

  • Improving milk quality in your flock

  • Effective social media marketing

Tentative farm-tour workshop topics on November 9th:

  • Mastitis vaccine

  • Staph. aureus screening

  • Smart-phone pregnancy testing

  • On-farm colostrum testing and Mastitis vaccine

Between sessions you can talk with presenters, vendors, and the fellow producers you’ve just met during the morning sessions. Half the value of the Symposium is the soulmates you meet, the friends you make, and the information you glean from other dairy sheep producers!

 

“I found excuses not to attend the symposium for years. I was too busy, it was too hard to leave the farm, it’s too expensive. When we finally did attend in 2017, I quickly learned the error of my ways. The information we took home from that symposium and the ones that followed have had a measurable effect on how our farm operates and our bottom line. The best part of the symposium is the networking. Meeting people who have lived through the same problems and challenges you face day to day is incredibly helpful and comforting. I always leave the symposium feeling reenergized about my farm.”

- Kyle White, Milkhouse Farm + Dairy, Ontario, Canada