Annual Meeting
Annual Meeting is Saturday, April 5, 2025
2025 WSBC Board of Director Nominations
Eric Meudt
Eric Meudt currently resides in Avalon, WI with this wife, Kayla, and sons Ethan, Brady and Garrett. He has been involved with sheep since his youth 4-H projects. He has been involved in many different aspects of the Wisconsin sheep industry. He and his family currently operate Meudt Family Genetics with a few Hampshire-based ewes and he enjoys working with youth and their lamb projects throughout the state. Eric is currently serving as the vice president on the WSBC board and chairs the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival sheep shows. Eric looks forward to the opportunity to potentially continue to work with the WSBC board and members.
Eric Meudt currently resides in Avalon, WI with this wife, Kayla, and sons Ethan, Brady and Garrett. He has been involved with sheep since his youth 4-H projects. He has been involved in many different aspects of the Wisconsin sheep industry. He and his family currently operate Meudt Family Genetics with a few Hampshire-based ewes and he enjoys working with youth and their lamb projects throughout the state. Eric is currently serving as the vice president on the WSBC board and chairs the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival sheep shows. Eric looks forward to the opportunity to potentially continue to work with the WSBC board and members.
Laura Monson
My name is Laura Monson, I live in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin where my family and I maintain a flock of 75 Hampshire, Dorset, Dorset Advantage, and Crossbred ewes. Although I didn’t grow up around sheep my whole life, my passion developed in high school through my FFA chapter, and I was hooked. I enjoy traveling to different shows around the country and getting to know fellow breeders and discussing the never-ending learning process that is raising sheep.
I have had many mentors throughout the years and I enjoy giving back and working with FFA and 4-H youth throughout the state and being a guest speaker at various high school agriculture departments. I enjoy sharing my passion for the agriculture industry, especially sheep-educating others on herd maintenance and health, selecting the next generation of breeding stock, and feeding programs.
I am currently on the board for the Wisconsin Livestock Breeders Association where I serve as Vice President and I am a member of The Circuit-Breeding Sheep Edition. I have enjoyed my involvement over the years helping with the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival and would love to be considered as a board member for the Wisconsin Sheep Breeders Cooperative.
My goals would be to help support the various breeders throughout the state from the commercial breeders, to the show stock breeders, to the fiber producers and everyone in between. I would love to see the WSBC further develop programs to best assist and support the amazing shepherds throughout the state of Wisconsin!
My name is Laura Monson, I live in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin where my family and I maintain a flock of 75 Hampshire, Dorset, Dorset Advantage, and Crossbred ewes. Although I didn’t grow up around sheep my whole life, my passion developed in high school through my FFA chapter, and I was hooked. I enjoy traveling to different shows around the country and getting to know fellow breeders and discussing the never-ending learning process that is raising sheep.
I have had many mentors throughout the years and I enjoy giving back and working with FFA and 4-H youth throughout the state and being a guest speaker at various high school agriculture departments. I enjoy sharing my passion for the agriculture industry, especially sheep-educating others on herd maintenance and health, selecting the next generation of breeding stock, and feeding programs.
I am currently on the board for the Wisconsin Livestock Breeders Association where I serve as Vice President and I am a member of The Circuit-Breeding Sheep Edition. I have enjoyed my involvement over the years helping with the Wisconsin Sheep and Wool Festival and would love to be considered as a board member for the Wisconsin Sheep Breeders Cooperative.
My goals would be to help support the various breeders throughout the state from the commercial breeders, to the show stock breeders, to the fiber producers and everyone in between. I would love to see the WSBC further develop programs to best assist and support the amazing shepherds throughout the state of Wisconsin!
Nancy Burton
My name is Nancy Burton and I am running for my third term on the Wisconsin Sheep Breeders Cooperative Board. I have been a proud member of the coop for over 28 years now. I have served on the board for the past 6 years and have been President, Vice President, and your ASI representative during those 6 years. I have greatly enjoyed being on the board and working not only with the other board members but also with various volunteers and groups that work within the cooperative. I’ve enjoyed working with the Wool Works and with Wisconsin Make It With Wool. I believe I can still contribute not only to this group but also to the board given the opportunity for my third term.
My husband and I raise registered Suffolk sheep. We also have a farm to table business. We offer lamb, pork, chicken, and eggs. We sell right off the farm and attend farmer's markets. We enjoy talking to the public about agriculture, our farm, and share recipes mostly for lamb. I have raised sheep for over 30 years. They have taught me a lot and surprised me over the years with why they are capable of. We focus on the production side and carcass traits, especially loan eye size and low back fat. We have done and do a lot of educating not only the general public but help educate other producers about various things within the industry and shared our experiences good and bad over the years.
I am proud to not only represent this group, but also the state of Wisconsin and the Midwest. I was born and raised here in Wisconsin and it will always be home. Some of the best shepherds are here in Wisconsin and I am proud to say I have learned a great deal from several of them and for that I will be forever thankful for. Please allow me to serve you and this cooperative one last term of three years. It would be a great honor for me. Thank you.
My name is Nancy Burton and I am running for my third term on the Wisconsin Sheep Breeders Cooperative Board. I have been a proud member of the coop for over 28 years now. I have served on the board for the past 6 years and have been President, Vice President, and your ASI representative during those 6 years. I have greatly enjoyed being on the board and working not only with the other board members but also with various volunteers and groups that work within the cooperative. I’ve enjoyed working with the Wool Works and with Wisconsin Make It With Wool. I believe I can still contribute not only to this group but also to the board given the opportunity for my third term.
My husband and I raise registered Suffolk sheep. We also have a farm to table business. We offer lamb, pork, chicken, and eggs. We sell right off the farm and attend farmer's markets. We enjoy talking to the public about agriculture, our farm, and share recipes mostly for lamb. I have raised sheep for over 30 years. They have taught me a lot and surprised me over the years with why they are capable of. We focus on the production side and carcass traits, especially loan eye size and low back fat. We have done and do a lot of educating not only the general public but help educate other producers about various things within the industry and shared our experiences good and bad over the years.
I am proud to not only represent this group, but also the state of Wisconsin and the Midwest. I was born and raised here in Wisconsin and it will always be home. Some of the best shepherds are here in Wisconsin and I am proud to say I have learned a great deal from several of them and for that I will be forever thankful for. Please allow me to serve you and this cooperative one last term of three years. It would be a great honor for me. Thank you.
Reid Formo
Reid Formo grew up on a multi-generational crop and livestock operation in SW MN. He grew up participating in 4-H and FFA, exhibiting cattle, sheep and swine. Reid, along with his wife and kids, raise livestock near Blue Mounds, WI where they focus on purebred Southdowns and high-quality show stock. When not busy with livestock, Reid operates a custom automation company focusing on agricultural solutions, such as livestock health & reproduction, barn automation and grain & feed handling. Reid asks to serve another term on the WSBC board as he feels passionately about the sheep industry and wants to insure it’s continued success into the next generation.
Reid Formo grew up on a multi-generational crop and livestock operation in SW MN. He grew up participating in 4-H and FFA, exhibiting cattle, sheep and swine. Reid, along with his wife and kids, raise livestock near Blue Mounds, WI where they focus on purebred Southdowns and high-quality show stock. When not busy with livestock, Reid operates a custom automation company focusing on agricultural solutions, such as livestock health & reproduction, barn automation and grain & feed handling. Reid asks to serve another term on the WSBC board as he feels passionately about the sheep industry and wants to insure it’s continued success into the next generation.