American Lamb Board

The American Lamb Board is looking for 150 sheep producers to participate in its Climate Smart Sheep Program.  Producers enrolled in the program will be paid up to $7,000 to develop and implement Climate Smart Sheep management practices and measure and report emissions and life cycle analysis.  Po...

Registration is now open for the 2024 American Sheep Industry Association Annual Convention at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.

The American Lamb Board released its fiscal year 2022 Annual Report to inform Mandatory Lamb Checkoff stakeholders of its work to mitigate outside forces and challenges and take advantage of opportunities ahead.   “Even though many challenges were out of our control, it’s critical that we keep driving forward as hard as we can to promote American lamb and the U.S. sheep industr...

The American Lamb Board is working with the American sheep industry to create a new task force of industry stakeholders and research and extension specialists to develop a sheep sustainability report.  The report will represent the sheep industry’s commitment to sustainability and the industry’s existing practices and goals for continuous improvement in animal care, environmental stewardship, soci

The American Lamb Board’s benchmark research on the environmental footprint of America’s lamb industry is within months of wrapping up.  The research is funded by the mandatory American Lamb Checkoff and focuses on collecting data from representative U.S. sheep farms, ...

Consumer demand for lamb increased considerably during 2020. While all meat sales grew during the year as more meals were eaten at home, lamb sales grew at a larger percentage than total meat sales overall. That’s according to the U.S. Re ...

2020 was a year of ups-and-downs in the United States, and the sheep industry was no exception. COVID-19, major changes in processing, and changes in consumer behavior led to challenges for the U.S. sheep industry. However, there were also positives outlined in the 2020 Sheep Industry Review, a checkoff-funded report commissioned by the American Lamb Board and the American Sheep Industry Associa

According to the American Lamb Board checkoff, retail sales of all lamb in the U.S. have increased. Retail sales between April 20th and July 12th increased 8.6% year over year. That comes out to 16.3 million pound of lamb sold, valued at $137 ...