GBFW16 Sheep Day – Jan 19, 2016 Sheep Day Panel – Marketing for More Profit Participants: James Lewis, Lewis Land and Stock Marc Carere, Trillium Lamb Inc. Andreas Buschbeck, Buschbeck Farms Facilitated by Phillip Woodhouse
GBFW16 Sheep Day – Jan 19, 2016Sheep Day Panel – Marketing for More Profit
Participants: James Lewis, Lewis Land and Stock Marc Carere, Trillium Lamb Inc. Andreas Buschbeck, Buschbeck
Farms Facilitated by Phillip Woodhouse
Lewis Land & Stock
392242 Grey Road 109 Holstein, ONN0G 2A0
Eweville 1996
Eweville 2001
OMAC 2009
Forsyth2012
Eweville 2016
Feed Station • Feed Supply
Tanks• Corn Silage• Apple Pommace• Corn Distillers • Corn• Lamb Premix• Soybean Meal• Oats• Liquid Feed• Hay
JD 7930 Supreme 900 Twin
• TMR Mixer • Lol It was
Icey!
Feeding 3 Days on feed Feeding
Shearing 2 person stand raised board Wool Press
Inside Barns
Breeds….You tell me!
Sorting
Direct to Packer
• In 1996 - shipped 100lbs + lambs to the USA.
• In 2001 – 911 – Twin Towers• In 2003 border closing – BSE - COOL • Canadian sales direct to slaughter• Presently shipping - 60-80 lbs, • 80-100 lbs & 100+ lambs
Something Fun…..
Thank You
www.lewislandandstock.comOffice: 519-334-3794Jay Lewis: 519-323-7439
Ballinahistle Farms LimitedMarc & Helen Carere and family
Lindsay, Ontario Kawartha Lakes
550 acres
500 acres improved and tiled
50 acres permanent pasture
Variable Quality land
550 acres
70 acres pasture
480 acres cropland
Variable quality
1000 Ewes
Accelerated 3 in 2
Commercial flock
Heavy lamb focus
Sheep since 1998
Combination intensive/extensive system
Pasture focus for ewes without lambs at side
Some ewes out virtually all year
Enthusiasm!!
Innovation & experimentation
Strip tillage
All feed produced on farm
mineral & soy/distillers purchased
Silage based
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Quality forage focus
Pasture
Land renovation
Native pasture
Woodland grazing
Fall/early winter grazing
Stockpiled forage
Crop residue
Feeding
Yards
Out winter
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Coming home
Lambing
Out to yards
Lambs on feed
Weighedrecorded
Trucked
Oh oh, there’s a problem…
the market is so unpredictable!!
UK 2012
Cotswold Group
Building relationships
Lessons from the other side
Carcass quality
colourtrim
abscess
Excess fat
“What sets this one apart is the idea of the field person who communicates along the supply/value chain but is an
employee of the producer group.”
Christoph Wand, OMAF Livestock Sustainability Specialist
Accurate data. Individual farm….
Aggregate Weekly ReportHealth Report
Start
Date Aug 26 - YTD4wk roll'g
avgLast
weekCount 3170 154 154Total Dressed Wt 178148 8857 8771.5ID – missing (%) 2.30% 1.30% 0.00%ID – unreadable (%) 0.25% 0.33% 0.00%Mutton (%) 0.09% 0.00% 0.00%Hide (%) 2.46% 0.81% 0.00%Pregnant (%) 0.25% 0.49% 0.00%Offal – CD (%) 43.09% 36.91% 50.65%
Aggregate Health data Health Rpt Start
Aug 26 - YTDTotal Count Marketed with Health Reporting Period 3170 Total Number recorded with a Health Indicator 1366 As % of Total Marketed 43.09%Arthritis / Head Abscess or Contamination - As % of Total Count 0.95% As % of Total Offal - CD 2.20%Kidney Nephritis - As % of Total Count 3.66% As % of Total Offal - CD 8.49%Liver Abscess/Parasitic/Contamination- As % of Total Marketed 8.52% As % of Total Offal - CD 19.77%Heart Cysts/Adhesions/Abscess - As % of Total Marketed 0.10% As % of Total Offal - CD 0.22%Lung Bloodspash/Contamination(Plant)-As % of Total Marketed 8.71% As % of Total Offal - CD 20.20%Lung Parasitic/PN/Adhesions/Abscess - As % of Total Marketed 23.40% As % of Total Offal - CD 54.39%
Aggregate Data Health Rpt Start
Aug 26 - YTDTotal Count Marketed with Health Reporting Period 3170 Total Number recorded with a Health Indicator 1366 As % of Total Marketed 43.09%Arthritis / Head Abscess or Contamination - As % of Total Count 0.95% As % of Total Offal - CD 2.20%Kidney Nephritis - As % of Total Count 3.66% As % of Total Offal - CD 8.49%Liver Abscess/Parasitic/Contamination- As % of Total Marketed 8.52% As % of Total Offal - CD 19.77%Heart Cysts/Adhesions/Abscess - As % of Total Marketed 0.10% As % of Total Offal - CD 0.22%Lung Bloodspash/Contamination(Plant)-As % of Total Marketed 8.71% As % of Total Offal - CD 20.20%Lung Parasitic/PN/Adhesions/Abscess - As % of Total Marketed 23.40%
As % of Total Offal - CD 54.39%
Ongoing…
Health Rpt Start
GOING FORWARD…will be measuring…
Excess Fat Carcass - EFCExcess Fat Kidney - EFKBlack Tripe - BTOtherCombinations
Value based pricing? Other?
Quality & Consistency Enables
predictability
That’s better!!
Our project is funded in part through Growing Forward 2 (GF2), a federal-provincial-territorial initiative. The
Agricultural Adaptation Council assists in the delivery of GF2 in Ontario.