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A Newsletter for the Iowa Sheep Industry ❖ October 2013
By Marsha Spykerman
Vibrant Business in a Bankrupt City
In mid-July this year I had the opportu-nity to travel to Detroit, Michigan for an American Sheep Industry Associa-tion Board meeting and when I learned
our destination for this meeting I uttered, “Why there?” As it turned out the Michigan Sheep Producers hosted a very interesting tour with one of the stops at Wolverine Pack-ing Company. Aaron Robinson, General Manager at Wol-verine Packing Co., described Wolverine as a vibrant and growing business despite the fact that it is located in downtown Detroit, a city with grave financial problems. The population has dropped from nearly two million in the 1960’s to 700,000, making for a huge loss in the tax base and leaving 40,000 vacant acres in the city. To our surprise Bob Braeckman, Lamb & Veal Sales Manager, told us Wolverine’s lamb and veal harvest facility is only a small portion of their business. Of the eight to ten million pounds of protein they distribute each week only 200,000–250,000 pounds is lamb. They have huge buildings dedicated to making and distributing hamburger patties for several chain stores and another building dedicated exclusively to steak cut-ting. They also handle and distribute pork, poultry and seafood but only slaughter lamb and veal. Wolverine Packing was founded in 1937, operating strictly as a lamb and veal processor until the early 60’s when they developed into a slaughter business. Later they pioneered the development of fresh
vacuum-packed lamb and veal. Eighty years ago there were up to fifty slaughter plants in downtown Detroit and now Wolverine is one of the few remaining, others being very small ethnic slaughter facilities. There is a very large ethnic popula-tion in the Detroit area and the increased ethnic population nationwide has helped with lamb demand but Wolverine’s big-gest advantage is their distribution system. Since they handle so many other proteins they make distributions in all of the lower 48 states each week and can literally get one box of lamb to any of the lower 48 each and every week. Lamb sales are boxed and/or case ready cuts. They do have a large ethnic pick up business buying whole carcasses; all wholesalers buying in this manner have their own retail stores. One customer from the East coast sends a Rabbi once each week for Kosher harvest, which takes place two days each week. While we were there a Halal harvest was taking place. Wolverine also harvests 150 head of ewes per week. Livestock buyer, Dale Brooks, explained that they do not contract lambs, have feed-lots or holding facilities and lambs are pur-chased as needed on negotiated live weight, based on shrink. They are looking for a spe-cific number of lambs each week and also looking for a specific lamb. Around 800-1000 lambs per day are received at 4 a.m.; harvest begins at 6 a.m. and is finished by 2:30 p.m. The live animals start on the third floor of the slaughter facility with the boxed and case
ready cuts and some carcasses ending up on the bottom floor; with everything out the door on the following day. The Muslim population prefers a YG 1 and the lightest carcass possible where the Jewish population prefers a YG 2 or YG 3 in a consistent 70 pound carcass. Brooks said the lamb they prefer for most of their customers is a grain fed, YG 2-3, crossbred lamb weighing 125-130 pounds. Brooks said they did not have problems with the overfat lambs last year because they did not buy them. He commented explicitly, “Back fat can be trimmed but not the seam fat!” One hundred percent of the lambs are graded and if they end up with yearling “lambs” they have a visit with the lamb buyer. No lambs are purchased coming right off grass because they have darker meat and need to be fed corn to lighten the meat up. Within their distribution system Wolver-ine handles about 20,000 pounds of frozen imported lamb each week. The feedback they have received is that New Zealand lamb is 100% consistent but that Australian lamb does sway some as to the fat content. It was disappointing to hear that the premium people were willing to pay for American lamb is disappearing and in some cases the ethnic population is willing to pay a pre-mium for the imported lamb. Touring Wolverine Packing Company was really an eye opener for a number of reasons but the most alarming statement was that we seem to be losing our advantage over imported lamb.
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The American Lamb Board (ALB) and the National Sheep Industry Improve-ment Center (NSIIC) have funded a
study to have USDA standardize and certify, and report on the benefits and effective-ness of Instrument/Electronic Grading. JBS (Greeley, Co) and Mountain States Rosen (MSR) are hosting the study and providing supplementary resources to allow the indus-try to evaluate the concept.
The lamb industry has, for some time, expressed concerns about the consistency of application of the USDA grade standards, particularly the inconsistency of the appli-cation of yield grades. The National Acad-emy of Science 2008 report on the U.S Sheep industry titled Making the Transition from Traditional suggested the need to develop a system that accurately assesses value on which packers and producers/feeders can agree. The beef industry has embraced this video imaging/electronic technology on a large scale. Earlier research reported by
USDA indicates that the E+V Instrument Grading Technology should enhance the accuracy and consistency of the USDA lamb grading process and provide more objective information on yield attributes.
The system has been installed in the JBS plant. On October 1st, USDA will begin conducting a 30 day trial to standardize and certify the instrument by verifying the instrument functionality, over a wide variety of carcass classes, against trained personnel. Upon completion and review of the data, which should take USDA an additional 60 days, the system should be approved based on defined calibration criteria and operat-ing performance protocols. In addition, Colorado State University, in cooperation with a USDA economist, will be developing a benefits and return on investment analysis to provide valuable data to the industry regarding the potential advantages and cost effectiveness of the system.
The unique advantage for the sheep
industry is that this technology can be ap-plied directly after harvest before chilling. This should allow the packer to better sort like carcasses and improve cooler manage-ment and better utilize production sched-uling to increase product throughput and operational efficiencies. In addition, having closely sorted carcass groups and the elimi-nation on non-conforming carcasses will provide industry the ability to deliver a more uniformity and consistent product to the retail and foodservice trade which should drive demand. Furthermore, the system will be critical in assisting the industry in its effort to move away from a weight based pricing structure to more of a true value based marketing system that has definitive market signals as to what is acceptable and what is not. *Editors note - USDA delayed the start date of this study due to the threat of a government shutdown on October 1st with concern for the possibility of having the study interrupted.
The Iowa Sheep Industry Association (ISIA) has made major changes in the website department. In addition to
getting a new look at www.IowaSheep.com ISIA added a dedicated festival website at www.IowaSheepAndWoolFestival.com. Sev-eral reasons precipitated the changes.
The festival needed a more user-friendly website than we had last year, making it easier to navigate and sign up for classes. This website will have its own store, com-plete with shopping cart and all of the infor-
mation will be electronically transmitted to ISIA for better record keeping.
We needed to move the ISIA website away from the design company that had been used for the past year due to cost. Annual maintenance fees were set to continue at $450 per year. Last year the Iowa Sheep & Wool Promotion Board funded half of that cost. Due to limited promotion board funding this year the ISIA Board felt it would be better to move the website and do the design and maintenance ”in house” with an-
nual costs running around $100 per year. Both sites contain links making it simple to
move from one to the other and they are tied together with a similar layout. Currently the festival website contains just basic informa-tion but in the coming months it will be updated as event details are confirmed. We hope you will take time to visit both sites and let us know what you think.
ISIA Board of Directors
by Dennis Stiffler, PhD, Mountain States Rosen
Electronic Instrument Grading
New! Festival Website and New Design at IowaSheep.com
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Please contact any member
Iowa Sheep Industry AssociationPresidentTed Greiner
Vice PresidentMarsha Spykerman
Newsletter712-330-7982
SecretaryGary Erickson515-332-1680
TreasurerErlene LeonardMembershipFinancials
Director-at-LargeMargie Meehan
Festival563-920-7704
Director-at-LargeRegina Fraham641-521-0086
Director-at-LargeLorraine Bailey515-306-2463
Director-at-LargeJim Timmins
Iowa Sheep & Wool Promotion BoardChair
Mark Van Roekel3891 390th ST • Orange City, IA 51041
BookkeeperSally Good
PO Box 1969Ames, IA 50010515-201-8875
Contact InformationSheep for Sale
Free listing for ISIA members. One ad per membership, which must be limited to 50 words. Ads may run in four issues (date in parenthesis indicates first issue) and may be re-submitted for an additional four issues. Send ad information along with name, address, phone and mail to Marsha Spykerman, 5771 230th St., Sibley, IA 51249 or email [email protected] by the 15th of the month for publication in the following month’s newsletter. Newsletter is published 11 times/year with a July/August issue.
For sale (10/13): Dorset Ram Lamb - 6 months old, asking $200. Email: [email protected] or phone: 641-903-1628.
For Sale (10/13): Registered Finnsheep and Finn/Dorset/Ile de France crossbred ewe and ram lambs. Prolific, proven, easy care sheep. Production and perfor-mance records available along with health guarantee. Mormon Trail Farms, Greenfield, Iowa. 641-745-2323, or [email protected].
For Sale (8/13): Registered Ram-bouillet Yearling Ram. Good Ram from good genetics, showed at the 2013 Iowa State fair. Born as a twin and has produced many twins in our 2013 spring crop. Please email me at [email protected] or call 641-751-0530
For Sale (8/13): Registered Suf-folk ram lamb. Well-muscled and fast growing, early February born lamb, sired by Kimm ram. Wengert Suffolks PH: 641-750-1655
For Sale (8/13): Bluefaced Leicester lambs. Ward, Beechtree and Crider bloodlines. Lamb Lane
Farm, Fort Madison, IA 319-372-1813. [email protected]
For Sale (8/13): Purebred Suffolk Rams and Ewe Lambs. All rams are RR, fast growing, structurally correct and ready for breeding. Will make excellent terminal sires for commercial flock and are competitive in the show ring. Stewart Suffolk, Newton, IA (641) 792-2323 Cell (641) 521-7981.
For Sale (8/13): Polypay ewe lambs. Good quality twins. Priced reasonable. 80# and up. Also ram lambs. 712-758-3762.
For Sale (8/13): Dorper and White Dorper rams: registered and commercial, also Ile de France percentage rams, hardy/easy care, well muscled, out of season breeding, excellent growth on for-age only. S Mitcham, 3061 160th Street, Sumner, 563-578-5665. [email protected]; www.ccdorpers.com ; FaceBook
For Sale (7/13): Romanov cross ewe lambs for sale. Also Great Pyrenees pups for sale. Knoxville, Iowa. 641-891-7490 or
For Sale (7/13): Registered Navajo Churro lambs, rams and replacement ewes. % Dorper, Ak-bash dogs, Navajo Churro washed fleeces in traditional or Bill (very similar to Cashmere). Corning, Iowa, 641-322-4802. [email protected]
For Sale (7/13): Great group of 10-15 ewes and ewe lambs. Ewes 1-6 years. Meaty, hardy, production type, purebred Suffolk ewes. Would keep but reducing our numbers. Several rams and ram lambs with Kimm bloodlines. We can make a package, if your are interested! Montie and Amy Wuthrich, Bloomfield, Iowa. 641-664-1375.
For Sale (7/13): Registered CVM/Romedale ram colored proven - $200. CVM/Romney Cross Ram colored - $125. Registered Romney ram, sire and dam had prize winning fleeces - $175. Two Cormo/Romney cross rams, excellent qualities - $125 each. All rams excellent fleece of handspinning quality as well as meat animals. 515-681-2361 or [email protected]
Calendar of Events
Do you have an event that you would like to place in the Lamb & Wool newsletter? Please send information by the 15th of the month preceding publication date of newsletter. Submit via email at [email protected] or call 712-330-7982.
Oct 201312-13 Madison County Covered Bridges Festival,
Winterset, Iowa. The Madison County Sheep Produc-ers will be serving lamb at their food booth.
24 7:30 p.m. Iowa Sheep & Wool Promotion Board conference call.
31 10:00 a.m. – Iowa Board of Veterinary Medi-cine, Second Floor Conference Room, Wallace State Office Building, Des Moines, Iowa. Sheep Produc-ers using Ultrasound Technicians to determine fetal counts and aging need to be in attendance as action
is taken on Administrative Rules Chapter 12.
NOv 2013(tBD) Iowa Sheep Industry Association Board
conference call meeting.
JaN 2014January 22-25 American Sheep Industry
Association Annual Convention, Charleston, South Carolina. Details at www.sheepusa.org.
JuNE 2014June 14-15 10th Annual Iowa Sheep & Wool
Festival, Jasper County Fairgrounds, Colfax, Iowa.
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Benefits of Feeding Sodium Bicarbonate
to Lambs
Feeding Sodium Bicar-bonate free choice to feedlot lambs to aid in buffering the rumen is
becoming a common manage-ment practice. Sodium Bicar-bonate is a white solid that is crystalline but appears like a fine powder. It has many related names such as baking soda, cooking soda, bicarb soda, or frequently just called bicarb.
Over the years we have learned to push lambs harder on feed with a ration high in concen-trates such as corn and soybean meal. The rumen pH will be-come acidic due to the fermen-tation of the starches and sugars. Feeding sodium bicarbonate assists the saliva in buffering the rumen, by reducing the risks of large drops in rumen pH. Lambs on sodium bicarbonate will stay on feed better and have reduced incidence of polio and
laminitis. Polio is caused by lambs that are border line aci-dotic and it interferes with the lambs’ ability to make Vitamin B. Laminitis is caused by long term acidosis destroying a layer in the lambs’ hooves causing long term excessive hoof growth and chronic lameness.
We recommend any producer that weans at 60 days of age and challenges his lambs with a high grain diet to offer the sodium bicarb free choice. Any lamb feedlot that brings in western lambs and starts them on a high concentrate diet will also gain by feeding the sodium bicarbonate. If you notice that you have slaughter lambs with long hooves or lameness due to misshapen hooves they have suffered a long term low level of acidosis.
The bicarb is a relatively inex-pensive management tool that
will pay dividends. If you have never fed bicarb free choice to your lambs, we recommend you try it, and most likely you will always offer it in the future. The lambs will perform better, stay on feed better, have less polio, and less laminitis. For purebred producers who want to challenge lambs for optimum performance it should always be a part of the management protocol.
In the past we were able to find a source of flavored bicarb which the lambs really liked, however we were unable to
locate this past year. If lambs eat the bicarb it is diagnostic that their rumen is acidic. Often lambs will go to the bicarb within hours of placing it in their pen. If you have any questions about feeding Sodium Bicarb please give us a call at 507-825-4211.
Reprinted from Pipestone Vet Clinic Ask-a-Vet. The Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, PLLC and the Pipestone System strongly urge that producers establish a patient-client-veterinarian relationship.
Fiber News for EweNZ Scientists Search for Silky Sheep
A gResearch scientists are again searching for lambs with curious coats and
need farmers help to find them during lambing. Last year sci-entists asked NZ farmers to be on the look-out for lustre lambs – animals with an unusual coat that is the result of a natural mu-tation which enhances the lustre characteristics of their wool.
“While we received a number of leads from farmers last season only one was confirmed as a lustre mutant,” says AgResearch scientist Dr David Scobie.
“Unfortunately it was a wether and since he is missing rather important pieces of reproduc-tive equipment it’s not the best news for us. So this season we are again asking farmers to help us in our search.”
Lustre mutants grow wool that resembles that from the “lustre breeds” like the English Leices-ter, Border Leicester or Lincoln and to some degree the Finnish Landrace or the mohair from an Angora goat. “The rare genetic mutation appears to affect not just the makeup of wool, but
also the sheep’s resistance to cold because the silky fleece does not insulate as well as other wool,” says Dr Scobie. “They have a habit of not surviving the cold weather.” He continues, “The mutation also affects tooth development; their lambs teeth may not be replaced as they get older, which means that they have difficulty competing with other sheep for food.”
While they are high mainte-nance these animals provide invaluable resources for wool studies. “We particularly want
to understand what proteins or cellular structure may be special to their wool, and then whether these are the same as those in the lustre breeds,” says Dr Scobie. He adds, “Studying a naturally occurring mutation with such a dramatic effect on fibre characteristics provides a unique opportunity to under-stand the genetic and physi-ological mechanisms affecting fibre quality. Lustrous wool looks quite like mohair from an Angora goat, with a silky or shiny appearance.”
by Dr. J.D. Bobb, DVM, Pipestone Veterinary Clinic, Pipestone, Minnesota
October 2013 Lamb & Wool Page 5
The ISIA board meeting at Colfax on September 17, 2013 was called to
order at 10:00 AM by Presi-dent Ted Greiner. Board members present: Jim Timmins, Lorraine Bailey, Regina Frahm, Ted Greiner, Marsha Spykerman, Margie Meehan, Erlene Leonard and Gary Erickson.
Gary motion to approve agenda; Jim second, all ayes. Gary motion to ap-prove minutes as printed in news letter; Marsha sec-ond, all ayes. Erlene gave treasurer’s report. There is meat left in inventory and anybody wanting to pur-chase meat should contact Erlene. Marsha acknowl-edged treasures report.
Marsha motion to reimburse Erlene $25.00 for start up for new bank account; Regina second, all ayes. Marsha motion to reimburse Erlene $176.00 for Johnson’s fair parking permits; Ted second, all ayes. Regina motion to pay Margie budgeted amount for festival fiber coordi-nator; reimburse Jim’s State Fair camping fee for working in food stand each morning and reimburse Marsha $57.75 for Festival website 24 month hosting fee; Margie second, all ayes.
Marsha motion to move festival from Adel to Colfax, Iowa starting in 2014 and get $500.00 deposit back from Dallas County Fair; Margie second, all ayes.
Discussion on gate charges for festival. Marsha motion to charge $5.00 for a two day wrist-band; Lor-raine second, all ayes. Lor-raine motion to give a free ISIA Foodstand beverage coupon to all car passen-gers 14 and under; Regina second, all ayes.
Chair positions for festival were discussed. Mar-gie – Chair Fiber Events, Fiber Vendors and outdoor vendors with Regina and Lorraine as Co-Chairs. Ted - sheep shearing dem-onstration. Gary Hall of Breeds. Susan Day lamb promotion (Cooking Dem-onstration and Cook-off contest)
Meeting adjourned for dinner. Thank you Erlene for the salad and lasagna and the deserts that the ladies brought.
Meeting called back to order following dinner.
Ted will contact the Iowa Club Lamb Association about having a show at the festival. Erlene will check with the Iowa Meat Goat Association regarding participation. Marsha and Regina will initiate work on the Festival booklet. Marsha will chair the Photo Gallery.
Erlene motion not to renew ISIA web page with Novel Design and take care of web page in house; Gary second, all ayes. Jim, Erlene and Gary appointed to Committee to rework ISIA By-laws. Gary motion to pay Erlene $550.00 for storage of food stand and support trailer and clean up of grills; Jim second, all ayes.
After a lengthy discussion on need for an employee, it was the consensus that a part time person is needed. Marsha motion to title the new position Director of Industry Relations; Jim second, all ayes.
Jim motion to adjourn; Gary second. Adjourned at 2:30 p.m.
Respectfully submittedGary M. EricksonISIA Secretary
Chuck and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the volunteers that helped
out with the Lamb Foodstand at the Iowa State Fair. We met a lot of very nice people and had great conversation with a lot of laughter again this year. There were around 110 volunteers, it gets a little hectic at times but we had a great fair and without all of the volunteers it could not have been done.
Also, we would like to thank the ISIA Board for all of the support they gave us; the many phone calls to Erlene Leonard; Gary Erickson for taking our fair payment to the administration office every morn-ing and for bringing change to us
and to Jim Timmins for all the help in the mornings. Thank you to the following people who helped set-up and/or tear down: Ted Greiner, Gary Erickson, Jim Timmins, Daryl Mick-elson, Dick Van Wyk, Terry Leonard and Chris Osborn.
Many volunteers worked more than one shift and many, when walking by and seeing that we were busy, just came in and helped out. For some it was their first year and many have been volunteering for many years. Here is a list of volun-teers and if we have overlooked a name, please accept our apologies! Thank you to all of you!
-Chuck and Carolyn Johnson
Morris Grabau & JanetMeridith & Markie
SpykermanEd & Patricia
SchneidersDudley McDowellRandal ParkinLeorge LairSharon & Jessica
JohnsonJulie WorralTerry & Lynn
ChapmanDuane & Pat SprouseTim, Spencer
& Meridith Hochstetler
Marsha SpykermanMark HansonDick & Linda Van WykRick & Angela MortozaJennifer FreyMike & Noah
Hochstetler
Rust SteilDon & Holly ShutzJim TimminsChance & Chris EcklesClark & Linda Bre DahlCaroline FreeseConnie HiltsAlex SmithDaryl MickelsonCassie JohnsonDavid & Linda HayesLowell & Laurie BenceCathy & Megan
NewtonDave TurnerTed GreinerMargie MeehanRoger BeyerLogan WilsonTom & Spencer CoryBob SimonErlene LeonardJennifer PetersonDelmer Van Wyk
Jeremy MorrisRod & Janet FlemmingAndrew SauerOwen LasherA ngela HenryLuke CornelisonJudy WillamsonIvan StrableBarb StewartDave ArieuxOrtude& Ursula DialScott & Lorraine BaileyBen JohnsonBob MaherElizabeth ElliottJulie & Travis BrownleeKen & Kathy HykesBarb Osborn &
daughtersPaul & Margo EnessDoug & Tyler WirthDennis & Linda Eckles
What would we do without the State Fair Volunteers?
2013 State Fair Volunteers
ISIA Board Meets at Colfax
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James M. Lein, 73, Arlington died August 23, 2013. James was born November 18, 1939, the son of Minard (MJ) and Mabelle (Wolfe) Lein in Des Moines, Iowa. He was baptized at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Des Moines. He attended Iowa State University in Ames and was a veteran of the United States Army where he served as a Missile Engineer with the 166th Ordnance Corps.
On July 23, 1967, he married Donna (Hay) Scherman. The couple farmed in the Arling-ton area and raised purebred sheep which they have done until the present. Jim’s child-hood and youth were spent with much emphasis on the 4-H program and specifically competition with Holstein dairy cows at local, regional and state fairs. He continued his love of livestock and com-petition at fairs and consis-tently won champion awards in several sheep breeds. The Lein family earned Premier Ex-hibitor award over 30 times at Midwest state fairs including the 2013 Iowa State Fair. This was the first fair Jim missed in over 70 years due to his health. In 1971, he was chosen Iowa State Fair Cookout King with his recipe and presentation of “Daddy’s Drumsticks.”
Jim was appointed to the Iowa Sheep and Wool Promo-tion Board and the Depart-ment of Agriculture’s Eco-nomic Development Board
and was chairman of the Iowa Agriculture Products Ad-visory Coun-cil. He also served on the American Sheep In-dustry Wool
Council. In 1988 he repre-sented the US in a delegation to promote sheep and wool in Russia.
In 1991 Jim and Donna received the Farm Bureau Out-standing Service to Agriculture for Fayette County of which he was a member for 48 years. The Leins were selected for the Iowa Farm Environmental Leader Award in 2012 to recog-nize their efforts as farmers to improve and protect the state’s resources.
Jim is survived by his wife, Donna of Arlington; three daughters, one son and four grandchildren. He was preced-ed in death by his parents and a son. Funeral services were held on August 31, 2013 in Wa-verly, Iowa. Memorials can be made in Jim Lein’s memory to: Camp EWALU 37776 Alpha Ave Strawberry Point, IA 52076, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church 112 2nd Ave NW Waverly, IA 50677, or Jim Lein Fund for University of Iowa Pulmonary Research PO Box 4550 Iowa City, IA 52244-4550.
Mini Greek-Style Meat Loaves with Arugula Salad
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Ingredients1 pound lean ground lamb1/3 cup dry breadcrumbs1/3 cup grated red onion4 teaspoons chopped fresh mint4 teaspoons chopped fresh
thyme3/8 teaspoon salt, divided1/4 teaspoon ground allspice1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper3 garlic cloves, minced1 large egg, lightly beatenCooking spray1/2 cup plain fat-free Greek
yogurt2 ounces reduced-fat feta,
crumbled2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice,
divided1 tablespoon extra-virgin olive
oil 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground
black pepper4 cups baby arugula leaves 1 1/2 cups (1/4-inch-thick)
diagonally sliced seeded peeled cucumber
PreparationPreheat oven to 450°. Combine
first 3 ingredients in a large bowl. Stir in 1 tablespoon mint, 1 tablespoon thyme, 1/4 teaspoon salt, allspice, and next 3 ingredients (through egg). Press meat mixture into 8 muffin cups coated with cooking spray. Pack meat mixture firmly and evenly into muffin cups to ensure even cooking and easy release. Bake at 450° for 7 minutes. Turn broiler to high; broil 3 minutes. Combine yogurt, feta, 1 tablespoon juice, 1 teaspoon mint, and 1 teaspoon thyme in a mini food processor; pulse 10 times to combine. Combine 1 tablespoon juice, oil, 1/8 teaspoon salt, and pepper in a bowl; stir. Add arugula and cucumber; toss. Sprinkle with paprika for a pop of color.
THANK YOU! 2013 Supporters
Diamond Ram SponsorsSuperior Farms • Premier 1 Supplies • American
Lamb Board
Golden Ewe SponsorsMountain States Lamb
ISIA Affiliate MembersPremier 1 Supplies • Superior Farms/Iowa Lamb •
Levan Seed, Inc. • Melvin Savings Bank • Sioux Falls Regional Livestock • Lanesboro Sales Commission, Inc. • JRG Supply Animal Health • Waverly Sales Co., Inc. • Farmers Union Coop – Ossian • Gold-Eagle Cooperative • Lyle Insurance Agency – Rita Sheetz • Adams Mutual Insurance Association • Marcus/Rem-sen Veterinary Center
Wickham Veterinary – Dr. Steve Wickham • Keota Vet Clinic • Spencer Ag Center • Mid State Milling • Colfax Livestock Sales • Equity Cooperative Livestock Sales Association • Key Cooperative • Sanborn Sav-ings Bank • The CUP Lab – Walter & Associates, LLC • Kingsley Livestock Pavilion • Bunker’s Feed & Supply • Sibley Vet Clinic • Heinold Feed Co., LLC • Farmers Pellet Mill, LLC • Sheep Breeder Sale Management Service – Larry E. Meade • Farmers Coop – Keota
Sponsorship Program levels are Diamond Ram – $1,000; Golden Ewe – $500; Silver Lamb – $250 and Bronze Lamb – $125. Affiliate membership in ISIA is $25. For more information about the Sponsorship Program call: 515-669-0573 or email: [email protected].
ISIA believes livestock production is very important to Iowa’s agricultural economy. There are many opportunities available in the sheep industry and with your help, ISIA carries out work for sheep production in Iowa. THANK YOU to our 2013 supporters:
IN MEMORIAM
James M. Lein
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