sheep

U.S. Sen. John Barrasso, of Wyoming, introduced legislation to stop the Biden Administration from lifting a ban on imports of sheep and goat products until accurate studies show the possibility of contamination or transmission of diseases have been completely eliminated.

Washington State University Extension and the Washington State Department of Agriculture through the WA Meat-UP program are excited to announce the first Mobile LAMB 300 short-course.

Effective immediately, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agriculture and Plant Health Inspection Service is implementing updated import and health certification requirements for live sheep and goats imported from Canada for restricted feeding for slaughter.

Even though it may not be the biggest industry in the region, sheep make up their share of agriculture in the PNW.

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 ...