THE SMALL RUMINANT DAIRY PROJECT
Carol Delaney
After a year of work and planning from a dedicated core group that met monthly by conference
calls, the Dairy Sheep Association of North America, DSANA was formed. It had its charter
meeting at the Dairy Sheep Symposium at Cornell on November 7, 2002. Board members were
elected, with Carol serving as secretary on the Board. DSANA offers a quarterly newsletter,
discount admission to the annual conference, and a directory. To join, contact Carol Delaney
at carol.delaney@uvm.edu
or Charles Capaldi at
ccapaldi@shepherdsoakfarm.com.
In November 2002, I presented a paper at the 8th Great Lakes Dairy Sheep Symposium held at
Cornell University . It was entitled "Start-Up and Operating Costs of Small Farmstead Cheese
Operations for Dairy Sheep" and was co-authored by Dennis Kauppila, UVM Extension
St. Johnsbury. We took data from local sheep dairies that were early on in their construction
of their dairies and cheese operations. It gave realistic numbers for others to make plans
with. To get a copy of the article, contact Carol Delaney. To get a copy of the proceedings
(148 pages of articles from 24 presenters.), contact Yves Berger, at the Spooner Ag. Research
Station in Wisconsin, at ymberger@facstaff.wisc.edu.
You can view previous proceedings under
"Resources" at the website:
http://www.uwex.edu/ces/animalscience/sheep/
Undergraduate student Becca Link finished her self-designed course working at Does' Leap Farm,
a goat dairy in Bakersfield, VT. Becca has been accepted into the UVM/Tufts Veterinary
Program. Good luck to Becca!