Sheep Industry News April 2025

Lehfeldt Testifies at Senate Ag Hearing ASI President Ben Lehfeldt testified before the U.S. Senate’s Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry on Feb. 26. The hearing included two panels, one of which focused on the livestock industry.

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10 Conquering The Divide

Field Day Schools Producers on LGDs In the past eight years,

Hettinger Center Goes High-Tech As one of Rachel Gibbs’ initial responsibilities as the new livestock extension specialist at the NDSU Hettinger Research Extension Center, she began utilizing high-tech equipment that gives sheep breeders and producers new information to aid in genetic selection.

the Livestock Guardian Dog Field Day at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in San Angelo, Texas, has become a valuable resource for livestock producers. Plus, there will be puppies!

– a little too quiet, in fact – as students arrived for the Wyoming Wool Growers Association Lambing School on Feb. 28 in Burns, Wyo. As it turns out, not a single lamb hit the ground during the six-hour school.

Long before she began to take an active role in the American wool industry, Mary Jeanne Packer came to understand the disconnect between the general public and farmers. But she’s bound and determined to tackle that as a member of the ASI Wool Council.

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