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farm to buy product.
The Logans also retail the other
product of their sheep: wool. A
basement shop holds knitting wool,
sweaters and lambskins. Their sheep
produce about two tons of wool a
year but the wool market in Ontario
traditionally isn't a profitable one.
They send about half their production
to Philosopher's Wool Co. at
Inverhuron and he processes it for
them. They, in turn, sell sweaters
created by the knitters who work for
the company. They also sell
lambskins tanned in Blyth.
Some of Robert Logan's
favourite memories over the
years have come in the work
sheep producers have done together.
He was a close friend of the
legendary Walter Renwick of
Belmore (they met when Logan
needed some sheep sheared and
Renwick was hired to do the work)
and for years they were members of
the Western Ontario Lamb Producers
Association which met every month,
drawing producers from south of
London to north of Lion's Head,
from Lake Huron to Highway 11.
Each month from 20 to 70 producers
would meet. "The problems of the
industry had a focus," Logan
remembers. "We mulled over and
chewed out the problems."
Some of the initiative that led to
the Ontario Sheep Marketing
Agency, he believes, came from
those who regularly gathered at those
meetings. Today some sheep
producers are still divided about how
OSMA should carry on its business,
but if leadership in the industry gets
it right the sheep industry has a
bright future, Logan says. "If they
have the imagination, there is the
potential for tremendous opport-
unities in marketing." The Internet,
telemarketing and other emerging
marketing tools could boost sales of
lamb, he says and through OSMA
there is now a structure for that kind
of activity to happen.
On August 16 and 17, the Logans
will host the Fourth Annual Western
Ontario Sheep Dog Trials. The
original Logan farm is next door to
the fairgrounds so the Agricultural
Society provides the organization,
and the Logans, the land and the
sheep for a show. It has become a
popular stop on the circuit of sheep
dog trials across North America.0