SAVE THE DATE! Hello Southeast Kentucky Sheep Farmers and Supporters- Save the date of Thursday, January 28th @ 7:30 PM for the Southeast Kentucky Sheep Producers Association’s next virtual meeting. It will be a ZOOM meeting with the option to telephone in. We’ll send out an agenda, hookup instructions and a call-in number a couple days before our call.  Also, as a friendly reminder, […]

Hello SEKSPA members- During SEKSPA’s Quarterly Meeting on October 29, the membership was presented with the following motion: “…a motion for the President to appoint a by-laws Committee to review and make revisions to our by-laws for the membership to consider.” The motion was seconded, voted on and approved. The by-laws committee is composed of Chris Pierce, Jessica Madison, Guy Taylor, […]

Dear SEKSPA members, My name is Emily Merritt and I have been elected to serve as the interim Treasurer of the Southeast Kentucky Sheep Producers Association (SEKSPA) in our last quarterly membership meeting on October 29th. This year has been a difficult time for all of us as a result of the corona virus threat. After a very successful meeting […]

July and August are the months of the year when flies are at their worst in our barns, barnyards and pastures. Several SEKSPA members have reported large fly infestations and maggots in open wounds on the skin of their sheep. Flystrike in sheep is a serious problem where flies lay eggs on open wounds or soiled wool. When the eggs […]

EASTERN KENTUCKY FARMER CONFERENCE MOREHEAD CONVENTION CENTER, MOREHEAD, KY The Kentucky Center for Agriculture and Rural Development (KCARD), Community Farm Alliance (CFA), the Governor’s Office of Agricultural Policy, Kentucky State University, and the University of Kentucky are partnering to offer the 4 the Annual Eastern Kentucky Farmer Conference. The conference will be held at the Morehead Conference Center in Morehead, […]

The First Quarterly Educational Meeting of the Southeast Kentucky Sheep Producers Association (SEKSPA) was a huge success! The first SEKSPA meeting was held Saturday 25, 2020 at the Laurel County Cooperative Extension Office in London, Kentucky.  We had an overwhelming response with 115 sheep farmers attending from across 18 southeastern Kentucky counties. Representatives from the state and federal government, the […]