Why invest in a DSANA membership?
The Dairy Sheep Association of North America is the only organization that knits together -- across a whole continent -- dairy sheep producers, sheep milk processors, academic researchers, and all kinds of additional professionals with an interest in dairy sheep.
What does that mean for you, though?
- Symposium proceedings: More than 20 years of proceedings from DSANA's annual Symposia are now collected on the website. They include detailed reports on presentations given by a variety of experts on everything from dairy sheep nutrition to parlor design to innovative marketing of sheep's milk products. Membership in DSANA is required to access the proceedings.
- The Flock Health Forum: For DSANA members, this is a new message board where you can post questions or share ideas based on a particular topic. Read people's posts on lamb diseases, parasite control, mastitis, and other topics. Receive email notifications of new posts or be notified when someone has responded to your question.
CONNECTION
- The DSANA membership directory: This new list of DSANA members across North America is accessible to the public online; they can easily search for dairy sheep producers near them. However, you can only be listed here if you're a DSANA member. If you're a member but have not set up your listing yet, now's the time!
PROFITABILITY
- Genetic Improvement: To help strengthen the dairy sheep industry, DSANA has launched a Production Improvement Program. Farms that are members of DSANA can enroll in the program and work with an advisor to collect production data. This data will then be analyzed to formulate whole-flock data that can be used by producers to make flock management decisions which will improve production overall. DSANA members are also able to order imported semen through our semen importation efforts.
CAMARADERIE
- Annual Symposium: Every year DSANA organizes a 4-day Dairy Sheep Symposium that draws speakers on various topics of interest to dairy sheep producers. The Symposium rotates between regions of North America, although this year it will take place online due to Covid-19. Many lasting friendships and professional relationships have started at the Symposium. DSANA members receive a discount on Sympoisum registration.
JOIN or RENEW today!
Our membership year starts this month (July) and runs a full year
Also note that for $75 in membership, up to 5 members of your farm, family, organization, or business can be included under your membership umbrella and be able to access all of the above benefits.
Thanks in advance for joining or renewing.
Please reply to this email with any questions or feedback.
The DSANA volunteer Board of Directors: Bee, Sarah, TomC, Debbie, Terry, Lesa, TomP, Carrie, Lynn, Becca, Kyle
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DSANA is trying to understand the general level of milk production within our industry, and how many of us are measuring our ewes' production, and whether our producers would like assistance in this area. This survey has 10 questions, mostly multiple choice, and should take less than 5 minutes. There are 3 non-multiple-choice questions, which may require you to look up first: the number of ewes milked and the total milk you produced in 2019, and the avg. number of days your ewes milked in 2019.
Please complete the survey here
And thanks to Christen Waddell of Blackberry Farm in Tennessee for offering to compile the results of this survey! At Blackberry Farm they milk 35 ewes and buy milk from a nearby dairy sheep farm to make cheeses that they sell to their hotel guests. Thanks, Christen - we hope you'll get a lot of survey results to process!!
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