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Sheep Update:
1999 Virginia State Fair Youth Market Lamb Nomination Schedule

Livestock Update, July 1999

Scott Greiner, Extension Animal Scientist, Sheep, Virginia Tech

Date & TimeLocationContact Person
Shenandoah Valley/Northern Virginia
Saturday, July 17
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.		Rockingham Livestock Market
Harrisonburg, VA		Corey Childs
(540) 635-4549
Tuesday, July 20
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.		Shenandoah County Fairgrounds
Woodstock, VA		Corey Childs
(540) 635-4549
Wednesday, July 21
6:00 - 9:00 p.m.		Culpeper Ag Enterprises
Culpeper, VA		Corey Childs
(540) 635-4549
Saturday, July 24
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.		Loudoun County Fairgrounds outside Leesburg, VACorey Childs
(540) 635-4549
Tuesday, July 27
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.		Shenandoah Valley Ag Research & Extension Center
near Steeles Tavern, VA		Corey Childs
(540) 635-4549
Southwest Virginia
Friday, July 23
7:00 - 8:30 a.m.		Roudabush Farm
Stuart, VA		Bill McKinnon
(540) 231-9160
Friday, July 23
10:00 - 11:00 a.m.		Grayson County Vocational Education Shop
Independence, VA		Bill McKinnon
(540) 231-9160
Friday, July 23
1:00 - 2:30 p.m.		Graystone Farm
Wytheville, VA		Bill McKinnon
(540) 231-9160
Friday, July 23
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.		Peggy Taylor Scales
Lebanon, VA		Bill McKinnon
(540) 231-9160
Saturday, July 24
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon		New River Valley Fairgrounds
Dublin, VA		Bill McKinnon
(540) 231-9160
Eastern Virginia* & Tidewater Region*
Saturday, July 24*
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon		Essex County Extension Office*
Tappahannock, VA		Scott Greiner
(540) 231-9159
Wednesday, July 28*
8:30 - 10:00 a.m.		Virginia Tech Tidewater Center Research Farm*
near Holland, VA		Scott Greiner
(540) 231-9159

*Exhibitors planning to nominate lambs at Essex Co. (Tappahannock) or Tidewater sites need to contact Scott Greiner at (540) 231-9159 prior to July 20.

For directions to a nomination site, please call the contact person listed.

Nomination procedures:

  1. Lambs will be weighed, tagged, and tattooed. Nomination forms will be completed by exhibitors.
  2. Exhibitors may take lambs to any nomination location. However, exhibitors must take all of their lambs to the same location.
  3. A total of 10 lambs may be nominated per exhibitor.
  4. It is recommended that lambs be recently sheared at the time of nomination.
  5. It is suggested that lambs weigh between 70 and 100 pounds at the time of nomination (there is not a minimum or maximum weight limit at nomination).
  6. Note: Market lambs must also be entered to be shown at the State Fair. Entries are due August 15. Weighing and identification at these locations does not constitute final entry for State Fair.



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