(NDSU Extension) – Capitalize on your lamb crop efforts by optimizing your feeding, health and marketing plans. The 2023 Lamb Outlook and Current Issues Forum hosted by NDSU Extension at the Jamestown Ram Sale will discuss these issues and more. Travis Hoffman, NDSU and University of Minnesota Extension sheep specialist, and Karl Hoppe, NDSU livestock systems specialist will lead the discussion from 11 a.m. to noon on Aug. 4.

The Jamestown Ram Sale is hosted by the North Dakota Lamb and Wool Producers Association.

Sheep producers from North and South Dakota have consigned 40 rams and 40 ewes for this year’s sale. Preview of ram and ewe consignments is available beginning at 9 a.m. Numerous genetics, including Dorset, Columbia, Hampshire, Suffolks, Crossbreds and more, will be offered for sale. Rams are yearlings and lambs, and breeding ewes will be sold either individually or as pens of three.

The sale catalog is available at www.ndsheep.org. A lunch featuring lamb will be served at noon, and the sale begins at 1 p.m. at the Stutsman County Fairgrounds, north of Jamestown, North Dakota.

For more information, contact David Brown, sale committee chairman, 701-840-7598, or Hoffman at 970-222-7569.