Episode #14 Leann Winters ADSBS Candidate
Oct 22, 2022 ·
1h 5m 32s
Leann Winters Hello! My name is LeAnn Winters and I am honored to be nominated to serve on the ADSBS Board. My husband and I own and operate Twin Ridges...
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Leann Winters
Hello! My name is LeAnn Winters and I am honored to be nominated to serve on the ADSBS Board. My husband and I own and operate Twin Ridges near Kahoka, Missouri. We currently run roughly 350 registered and commercial Dorper ewes and 50 cow calf pairs. Our two children, Wyle,12, and Ally, 11, have a flock of white dorper ewes. I am currently a District Conservationist for the USDA-NRCS.
My passion for raising sheep started when I was 8 years old. I was fascinated at tracing their genetics, recordkeeping, and rotational grazing and I still am to this day. I was active in 4-H, FFA, University Extension events, and Church. I attended collage at the University of Missouri and completed an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Education and a Masters in Agronomy with an emphasis in Grazing Management. Throughout my college education, I worked as a research specialist preforming grazing trails on perennial and annual forages and presenting at field days across the US and international. In 2006, I began my search for a breed of sheep that focused on production, carcass characteristics and growth. I was pleased to find the Dorper breed and added 4 ewes and a ram…and the rest is history!
I have taken the Senior Course with Raymond Reed and have been honored to have Theuns Botha and Colene van der Merwe inspect our flock. I feel it’s not only important to select by standards but also carcass merit and productivity. We are currently transitioning from an excel program to an EID tagging system with reader and software from Select SheepWare. We are also utilizing Flock 54 for genetic testing. I would like to promote this level of record keeping in the Dorper breed. My children enjoy being involved in 4-H and Junior events. I believe in developing strong youth programs and promote showing and education in our Junior Members and was recently added to the ADSBS Youth Committee.
I appreciate the opportunity to run for the Board and if elected, look forward to working with my fellow Board Members and networking with you to promote the breeds!
www.Dorpersheep. org
www.Nationalagco.com
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Hello! My name is LeAnn Winters and I am honored to be nominated to serve on the ADSBS Board. My husband and I own and operate Twin Ridges near Kahoka, Missouri. We currently run roughly 350 registered and commercial Dorper ewes and 50 cow calf pairs. Our two children, Wyle,12, and Ally, 11, have a flock of white dorper ewes. I am currently a District Conservationist for the USDA-NRCS.
My passion for raising sheep started when I was 8 years old. I was fascinated at tracing their genetics, recordkeeping, and rotational grazing and I still am to this day. I was active in 4-H, FFA, University Extension events, and Church. I attended collage at the University of Missouri and completed an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Education and a Masters in Agronomy with an emphasis in Grazing Management. Throughout my college education, I worked as a research specialist preforming grazing trails on perennial and annual forages and presenting at field days across the US and international. In 2006, I began my search for a breed of sheep that focused on production, carcass characteristics and growth. I was pleased to find the Dorper breed and added 4 ewes and a ram…and the rest is history!
I have taken the Senior Course with Raymond Reed and have been honored to have Theuns Botha and Colene van der Merwe inspect our flock. I feel it’s not only important to select by standards but also carcass merit and productivity. We are currently transitioning from an excel program to an EID tagging system with reader and software from Select SheepWare. We are also utilizing Flock 54 for genetic testing. I would like to promote this level of record keeping in the Dorper breed. My children enjoy being involved in 4-H and Junior events. I believe in developing strong youth programs and promote showing and education in our Junior Members and was recently added to the ADSBS Youth Committee.
I appreciate the opportunity to run for the Board and if elected, look forward to working with my fellow Board Members and networking with you to promote the breeds!
www.Dorpersheep. org
www.Nationalagco.com
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