Sheep Industry News August 2025

go through an enormous amount of time, effort, energy, and resources collecting the necessary data for NSIP. From birth weights in the lambing barn to weaning weights, to fleece weights and microns, to scanning for ribeye depth, seedstock producers are not only striving to better their flocks but hope fully the flocks of the producers who purchase from them. Most hogget rams offered for sale will have had up to 15+ points of data taken and submitted into the NSIP program. These data points lend themselves to greater predictability through genetic evaluation and data collection. The consign ors at the Miles City Ram Sale take great pride in offering what they consider their best animals through the use of NSIP. The 100th Anniversary Montana Ram Sale and 12th Annual Ewe Sale will be held at the Eastern Montana Fairgrounds on Sept. 10 and 11, 2025. It will be a special event, held on the same ground at the same time for the past 100 years. Only the buildings and new generations of buyers and consignors have changed. The Montana Ag Experiment Station has consigned for 75 years. Members of the Sampsel family from Stanford are also 75-year consignors through the Hughes family, and Lehfeldt Ranch of Lavina (ASI President Ben Lehfeldt’s family) con signed their first lot in 1952. Sieben Ranch of Wolf Creek (the Baucus family through Henry Sieben) and the Whiteside fam

ily of Jordan both purchased rams in the 1950 sale and con tinue to do so. Other buyers that have supported the sale for over 70 years include Sieben Livestock of Adel, Bair Company of Martinsdale, the Hinnaland family of Circle, the Murnion family of Jordan, and the McRae family of Jordan. Please join us for the celebration at the Eastern Montana Fairgrounds on September 10 & 11 in Miles City. More in formation can be found at https://mtsheep.org/news-events/ annual-montana-ram-and-ewe-sale.

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