sheep

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation rejected a request by livestock and agriculture groups for an exemption to federal driving time regulations that many in farm county say would provide necessary flexibility during certain times of the year...

According to the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, a herder found a dead 100-pound sheep in a private commercial timber land allotment in Union County Wednesday September 7th.  Investigators said hide and tissue were missing from the rear of the hindquarters.  It was ...

America’s farmers and ranchers will soon have the opportunity to be represented in the nation's only comprehensive and impartial agriculture data for every state, county and territory.  The Department of Agriculture will mail the 2022 Census of Agriculture to millions of agriculture producers across the 50 states and Puerto Rico this fall.  The 2022 Cens...

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife crews were called to a depredation in the Coyote Canyon area of Umatilla County earlier this week. On Monday, a sheep herder found a dead 180- pound ewe and a dead 70-pound lamb in a 5,000-acre private-land pasture about one mile from the herder’s camp, where the sheep had been bedded for the night. The ...

The National Lamb Feeders Association is accepting applications for the Howard Wyman Sheep Industry Leadership School, which is from June 19th-22nd. The school starts on Sunday, June 19, with a meet-and-greet at the hotel in Greely before the busy week kicks off ...

The U.S. Quarterly Lamb Retail Sales Report for the fourth quarter of 2021 shows lamb performed better last year than it did in 2020. Lamb has seen tremendous retail sales growth during the past two years. Lamb and exotics were the only meat categories to grow volume last year compared to 2020 ...

The sheep and lamb industry saw prices reach historic levels in 2021. The year of outstanding domestic demand for lamb is summarized in the 2021 Sheep Industry Review. The report is funded by the lamb checkoff and put together by the American Sheep Industry Association ...

The American Lamb Board is working with Michigan State University to evaluate the environmental footprint of the U.S. sheep industry. The goal is to get accurate and robust data to contribute to this important issue. The initial focus of the study defines a comprehensive model of greenhouse gas emissions for the diverse array of U ...

Sheep and lamb numbers dropped across the Pacific Northwest and across the country to start the year. According to NASS, sheep and lamb inventory in Oregon was 145,000 head as of January 1st, down 6% from 2021 figures. Numbers across Idaho came in at an estimated 230,000 head, unchanged from 2021 ...

Idahoans, and others around the Northwest are being reminded that there are livestock guard dogs on the range protecting sheep and those animals need to be left alone. In a video posted by the Idaho Rangeland Resources Commission, Joanna Tjaden, BLM Rangeland Specialist with the Shoshone District says if the dog is not injured, or just looks lost, leave it be. "Thos ...