16th Annual Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium

November 11th-13th, 2010

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The 16th Annual Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium will be held during the three full days of Nov. 11-13, 2010 at the Ramada Convention Center in downtown Eau Claire, Wisconsin. The symposium will include presentations by dairy sheep producers, sheep milk processors, university scientists, and industry service personnel on Nov. 11 and 12 followed by a bus tour on Saturday, Nov. 13 of a dairy sheep farm, a sheep milk farmstead cheese operation, and the Spooner Agricultural Research Station. The Spooner Station, operated by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has the only dairy sheep research farm in North America. The final program and registration information will be available on the Dairy Sheep Association of North America's web site (www.dsana.org) by the end of July. Eau Claire is conveniently located on Interstate 94 in northwestern Wisconsin approximately 100 miles east of Minneapolis. Shuttle service to and from the Minneapolis airport to the Ramada Convention Center can be reserved through Chippewa Valley Airport Service (1-877-811-4211, www.chippewavalleyairportservice.com) at a cost of $33 each way. Several direct flights into Eau Claire's Chippewa Valley Regional Airport from Chicago O'Hare are available on United Airlines at reasonable costs each day, and while less convenient, it is possible to fly from Minneapolis to Eau Claire with one stop. For additional information, contact Claire Mikolayunas (mikolayunas@wisc.edu, 608-332-2889).