The Annual Meeting & Dinner was held on December 3, 2022 at the Guilford VFW with good food and good company! The Scotch auction had lots of great stuff and brought in $300 to go to the Randall Knight Scholarship.
Nate Trojanoski, our newly appointed President started the business meeting with an overview of the year and the Board for appointments to various positions due to people resigning. We heard from the new Treasurer, the Secretary, the CT Blanket Committee, the Scholarship Committee and the Festival Committee.
Nate also reminded people that 2023 is an election year for CSBA and anyone interested in being an Officer or on the Board should let him know.
Dr. Joe Emenheiser gave a nice presentation on his goals at UCONN for all livestock species including shifting their Shropshire flock to an all registered flock and being part of the National Sheep Improvement Program (NSIP) as well as working on the current issue in New England for the lack of livestock processing options. He will be working on reworking the Meat Lab which could fill a need of training prospective candidates for the field.
He also told us that he is planning the 4-H Sheep Day as well as a program for adults that will be held on Saturday, February 4, 2023. There is plenty of room for planning so if you have ideas let him know!
joe.emenheiser@uconn.edu
