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...friends are joined by 13 other students in the two-day class taught by Pat Melendrez, an agriculture specialist with the university's extension service, who has been taking shears to sheep for more than 30 years. The idea is to train people who might be interested in meeting the annual shearing needs of small flocks, like the one Jenkins and his friends own. It's not cost-effective for professional shearers, who travel across the country from one large commercial flock to the next, to bother with small flocks...
...someone like David Herrera, a Las Cruces film technician whose work depends on what movies are being filmed in the area, shopping around his newly earned sheep-shearing skills might just be a way to supplement his income, and return to his family's rural roots. His grandfather was the ranch foreman for the western artist Peter Hurd in southern New Mexico's Hondo Valley and even appears in some of his pastoral paintings. Herrera's classmates included NMSU undergraduate and graduate students, some of whom considered sheep shearing an important part of their studies. "I'm doing a graduate...
Hamdy Oushy, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture, wanted to know his way around a sheep before he heads to Afghanistan to start up a USAID-funded program to establish sheep-shearing schools as a way to re-introduce sheep/wool production to nomads and villagers. Melendrez will teach the skill to Afghans, who will then head out to rural provinces and train young sheepherders...
...worth of wool. It is a far cry from the 1 million ewes who grazed the state's rangeland 20 years ago. With fewer restrictions on predator controls, losses of lambs to coyotes and mountain lions have mounted in recent years, causing more and more ranchers to trade their sheep for cattle...
Still, Melendrez anticipates an increase in boutique farm flocks for personal use, like Jenkins and friends, who look forward to growing their herd with every lambing season. "At $5 to $10 a head, a young guy can make some pretty good money shearing sheep," says Melendrez. Dismissing the class for lunch, he is satisfied with their progress. When asked the hardest thing to teach, he responds, "Patience...