The last two were at Ambassador's British campus. Upon graduation in l969, he remained at the British campus to develop, along with an Australian graduate of the same campus, the University's Agriculture Department and farm. He returned to the family farm in Iowa in l977 with no money, a wife, a child, and a preference for trying to survive by operating a commercial ewe flock. Premier Sheep Supplies was founded in 1979 as a by-product of efforts to source fence and equipment needs for his own sheep farm. Premier, as an agribusiness, now employs over 25 people.
Primary customers are the sheep producers of the USA and Canada.
Ewe numbers on Premier's Iowa farm over the past 20 years have been as high as 700, as low as 25, and now stand at 300. The flock is closed to the extent that rams only are added to the flock - usually every 2nd year. Current genetic base of the flock is Border Leicester x Suffolk - which we do not consider to be ideal for our needs.