ASI Wool Council Offers Shearer-Mentor Grants

ASI Wool Council Offers Shearer-Mentor Grants

Russell Nemetz
Russell Nemetz
The American Sheep Industry Association Wool Council has developed a new grant totaling $15,000 with the goal of helping develop beginner and intermediate shearers and keeping them in the industry.

The grant is open to developing shearers and their mentors (those who are helping train them). Developing shearers will receive $500 at the beginning of the program to help them with equipment and/or to supplement their work when they are shearing a low number of head each day.

Developing shearers will then receive $1,000 upon completion of the program, which includes sending videos of their progress and a written summary. Mentors will receive $1,500 upon completion, which includes a written summary and documentation of how they assisted the developing shearer.

Applications must be submitted by Jan. 15, 2022.

For more information, visit www.sheepusa.org.

Source: American Sheep Industry Association

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