Virginia Ram Test and Sale
August 22 All day
The Ram Lamb Test is held at the Virginia Sheep Evaluation Center on the Virginia Tech Shenandoah Valley Research and Extension Center in Steeles Tavern, VA. This program is sponsored by the Virginia Sheep Producers Association and the VSPA Seedstock Council. The Virginia Ram Test is among the oldest, most continuously operated ram evaluation programs in the U.S., with the program existing at the current location since the mid-1970s.
The program purpose is:
- To provide a standard, impartial postweaning performance test that will furnish records which will be useful to the consignor’s breeding program;
- To provide a source of and market for performance tested rams;
- To serve as an educational tool for the sheep industry.
Virginia Sheep Evaluation Center
Steeles Tavern, VA
United States
Learn more: https://sas.vt.edu/extension/vtsheep/va-ram-test.html