Keith Salisbury is trying to start up a co-op with some seed money to be used by March in Eastern Ontario.
He asked me to be the Western representative which includes Belleville.
Keith has asked to have a few minutes to talk about it on Feb. 09 at the Zone 8 meeting in Napanee. We both raise Katahdin sheep and Keith uses a Dorper as a terminal sire. Other interested producers have similar sheep. The main idea of the co-op is to facilitate producer direct sales to store by cutting out the middle man. The producer will only need to deal with the abattoir.
The ideal railgrade (dressed weight) would be 40 to 45 lbs. Live weight would need to be about 90- 100lbs.
For more information e-mail me.
