14th Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium
RT Lodge, Maryville TN
Thursday, October 30
10-12:00 Registration and Welcome
12:00 Sheep Dairying Producer Panel
Sheri Palko (Locust Grove Farm)
Kristian Holbrook (Blackberry Farm)
Ronnie and Daphne Rogers (Indian Crest Farm)
1:00 Economics of Conversion: Cow Dairy to Sheep Dairy
Gary Rogers (Indian Crest Farm)
2:00 Sponsor Visit and Coffee Break
2:30 Sheep Cheese Marketing Panel
Tom Clark and Allyson Zollner Brennan (Old Chatham Sheepherding Company)
Sheri Palko (Locust Grove Farm)
Pat Elliot (Everona Dairy)
3:30 Benefits of Dietary Dairy Fats
Nina Planck (author of Real Food)
4:15 Affinage Primer
Rob Kaufelt (Murray's Cheese)
5:30 Break
6:30-8 Wine and Cheese Reception
Friday, October 31
7:00 Board Buses for Farm Tour
Blackberry Farm (Kristian Holbrook)
Locust Grove Farm (Sheri Palko)
Indian Crest Farm (Ronnie and Daphne Rogers)
6:00 pm Dairy Sheep Association of North America Annual General Meeting
7:00 Banquet
Saturday, November 1
8:30 Overview of Sheep Dairying in Israel
Dr. Gabriel Leitner, National Mastitis Reference Center, Israel
10:00 Impact of Handling and Thawing on Cheesemaking Properties of Frozen Sheep Milk
Dr. Bill Wendorff, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:00 Effect of Dry Treatment on Mastitis in Dairy Sheep
Carlo Spanu, UW-Madison and University of Sassari, Italy
11:45 Sponsor visit and Lunch at RT Lodge
1:00 Somatic Cell Count Regulation and Antibiotic Testing of Sheep Milk
Dan Scruton, Sr. Development Coordinator, VT Agency of Ag, Food and Markets
2:00 Immunology of Mastitis in Sheep
Dr. Gabriel Leitner, National Mastitis Reference Center, Israel
3:30 Conference concludes
Location and Accommodation
The symposium is being held at RT Lodge in Maryville, Tennessee. The Lodge is located in a wooded setting adjacent to Maryville College 20 miles from the McGhee Tyson Airport (Knoxville). RT Lodge offers free shuttle service to the airport. The room rate is $140 for a single room and $155 for a double room plus applicable taxes. Room fee includes breakfast. Blocks of rooms will be held for the Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium. For reservations call 865-981-9800.
Registration Fee
Registration will be accepted via mail or online after September 1, 2008. Please check the website at that time.
The symposium registration fee includes the coffee break, 2 lunches (Friday and Saturday), Friday night wine and cheese reception, and a copy of the Proceedings.
Full Conference (not including banquet) $150
Banquet Ticket $40
Farm Tour only $40
Saturday program only $50
For registration questions, please call Claire Mikolayunas at 608-332-2889 or email mikolayunas@wisc.edu.
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