S. Schoenian1
1Area Agent, Sheep and Goats, University
of Maryland Cooperative Extension, Western Maryland Research & Education
Center, Keedysville, MD 21756
The Maryland Sheep & Goat Producer is a bi-monthly newsletter for sheep
and goat producers, 4-H youth and volunteers, and extension and industry professionals
in the Mid-Atlantic region. Its purpose is to provide unbiased, research-based
information on sheep and goat production and marketing and to highlight extension
programs in Maryland and nearby states. Producers have the option of receiving
the newsletter via the mail for a cost-recovery fee of $10 per year or being
placed on an e-mail list to receive e-mail notification when a new issue of
the newsletter has been posted to the web. The newsletter may be viewed online
at any time by anyone browsing the web. Each newsletter is ten pages. Regular
features in the newsletter include Focus on Research, Featured Web Sites, and
Calendar of Events. Semi-regular features include Disease In-Depth, Marketing
Tips, and Featured Breed. Many articles in the newsletter have been reprinted
in other publications or expanded into standalone articles for the web. The
newsletter is written, edited, and designed by Susan Schoenian, an Area Agent
specializing in sheep and goat production in Western Maryland. Dr. Niki Whitley,
Livestock Specialist at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore is a regular
contributor to the newsletter. The newsletter is created in WordPerfect. HTML
and PDF versions of the newsletter are created and posted to the Maryland Small
Ruminant Page web site (www.sheepandgoat.com/news/index.html).
The HTML version of the newsletter contains hyperlinks and additional graphics
and images. Previous issues of the newsletter are accessible at the newsletter’s
home page. Since it is not known how many people view the newsletter online,
it is difficult to estimate how many people read the newsletter. Approximately
fifty (50) copies of the newsletter are mail to subscribers. There are approximately
250 people on the e-mail notification list. E-mail notification is also sent
out internally to University of Maryland extension educators, specialists, and
administrators. Additional copies of the newsletter have been distributed at
4-H meetings, conferences, and places of business.
This abstract was presented as a poster
at the Annual Meeting and Professional Improvement Conference of the National
Association of County Agricultural Agents, Buffalo, NY July 2005.
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