Strong demand, good growth potential, but is the leadership there?
‘The number of consumers of sheep and lamb is growing like gangbusters,’
says the chair of the Ontario Sheep Marketing Agency. But tensions are
building over how to grow the market and producers are questioning
whether the OSMA leadership can take the industry to the next level
by MARY BAXTER
• Vince Stutzki was working in the seed industry when he and his wife Heather acquired a neighbour’s flock of sheep as a part-time enterprise in the late 1980s. It didn’t take long for the Paisley-area couple to recognize that there was money to be had by expanding their operation.