National Sheep Industry Improvement Center Board of Directors 2015 Glen Fisher, Chairman Laurie Hubbard Dr. Cathie Woteki 750 Loop 467 6358 Cortland Road Under Secretary – Research, Education, and Sonora, Texas 76950 Alum Bank, PA 15521 Economics 1400 Independence Ave., SW Joan R. Snyder Janet B. Mawhinney Room 214-W, Whitten Vice Chairwoman Building 408 Blaker Ridge Road Washington, DC 20250-0110 271 Hollow Rd Farm Waynesburg, PA 15370 Stuyvesant, New York Marsha Spykerman Mr. Edward Avalos - 5771 230 th Street Linda S. Campbell Undersecretary Sibley, IA 51249-7034 Sec/Treas. Marketing and Regulatory 2974 Stonyman Road Programs 1400 Independence Ave. SW Luray, Virginia 22835 Room 22-W, Whitten Steven Lee Building Program Manager Cody Heimke Washington, DC 20250-0109 1773 Koshkonong Box 646 Stoughton, WI 53589 Rockland, Maine 04841
MISSION : The Mission of the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center is to improve the infrastructure of the U.S. sheep and goat industries by strengthening and enhancing the production and marketing of sheep, goats, and their products.
FUNDING PRIORITIES The primary objective of the Grant Program is to fund a number of projects determined by industry leaders to be priorities for benefiting the sheep industry. That list is:
1. Strengthen and enhance the production and marketing of sheep and sheep products through initiatives that improve infrastructure, enhance resource development, and support innovative solutions to industry problems.
2. Provide leadership training and education to industry stakeholders. 3. Enhance sheep and sheep products in the United States through assistance to all segments of the industry to address sustainable production and marketing of sheep and sheep products.
4. Promote marketing strategies or methods that can reliably be expected to have a long-term, positive impact on the sheep industry. 5. Enhance the sheep industry by coordinating information and idea exchange to facilitate deeper understanding among industry stakeholders.
Grants: The Center may use grants to provide funding for research on new products, technologies, or knowledge that will improve the efficiency, profitability, or quality of the sheep industry, and as seed money for the production and commercialization of new and innovative products or processes.
These Priorities need to be updated! Please give us your feedback by contacting: stevelee@nsiic.org
Funds awarded: 2011 -- $278,895 2012 -- $299,500 2013 -- $217,222 2014 -- $160,502
2015 Grants $262,186 Arkansas State “ Camelina ” meal control strategy of University internal parasites in sheep Development of ovine GM1 ganglioside Glycoscience Lab for Huntington’s disease Promotion of Wool Batting to Improve Greenfleece, Inc. Fiber Quality and Incomes of Northeastern Wool Growers KY State Dev. Improving Education and Access to Office Breeding Stock for Kentucky’s Small Ruminant Producers
Survey of select trace mineral status in ram lambs and Montana State Univ. production implications for ram development Montana State Univ. Wool Education and Research Qualitative analysis of the market Mt. States Rosen Co. opportunities for U.S. lamb among the Muslim population 2016 Howard Wyman Sheep NLFA Industry Leadership School with OSU Lamb 509 Short course
National Sheep Improvement NSIP Program-Program Director Salary Match Working Dog Liability Program Sheep Venture Co Providing producer’s information Superior Farms from electronic grading through a web based application. Texas A&M Improving and expanding the use University Research of livestock guard dogs for small ruminant predation control
Could Your Project Get Financial Support from NSIIC?? The Sheep Center encourages more participation by producers. Please take the time to look into projects that could be done locally with national implications and apply! You can’t be approved if you don’t apply.
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