Sheep Industry News February 2023

USDA Issues Appointments To American Lamb Board

USDA/AGRICULTURAL MARKETING SERVICE T ary 2023 and end January 2026. Newly appointed members are:

Sheep Industry Improvement Center Board of Directors. The newly appointed members will serve three-year terms from January 2023 to January 2026. Newly appointed members are: • Producer – Faye F. Schalesky, Faith, South Dakota • Expert in Finance and Management – Robert Buchholz, Eldo rado, Texas The board is composed of seven voting members and two non voting members. Voting members include four active U.S. sheep producers, two members with expertise in finance and manage ment and one member with expertise in lamb, lamb product or wool marketing. Non-voting members include USDA’s Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs and Under Sec retary for Research, Education and Economics. More information about the center is available on NSIIC.org. The National Sheep Industry Improvement Center was es tablished as part of the 2008 Farm Bill and administers a grant program designed to improve the infrastructure of the U.S. sheep industry by strengthening and enhancing the production and marketing of sheep and sheep products. The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service provides oversight of the center. 500 head of lambs annually. At least one feeder must feed less than 5,000 head of lambs annually and at least one must feed more than 5,000 head of lambs annually. More information about the board and a list of board members is available on the Agricultural Marketing Service American Lamb Board webpage at AMS.USDA.gov/rules-regulations/research promotion/lamb and on the board’s website at lambresourcecenter. com. Since 1966, Congress has authorized the development of indus try-funded research and promotion boards to provide a framework for agricultural industries to pool their resources and combine efforts to develop new markets, strengthen existing markets and conduct important research and promotion activities. AMS provides oversight of 22 boards, paid for by industry as sessments, which helps ensure fiscal accountability and program integrity.

he U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in January the appointment of four members to each serve three-year terms on the American Lamb Board. The terms begin Janu

• Jeff Ebert, Saint George, Kansas – Producer (100 or less head) • Gary Visintainer, Craig, Colorado – Producer (Greater than 500 head)

• Don Hawk, Danville, Ohio – Feeder (At Large) • Karissa Isaacs, Milliken, Colorado – First Handler

The 13-member American Lamb Board is composed of six producers, three feeders, three first handlers and one seedstock producer. Two producers appointed to the board must own 100 or less head of lambs annually; one producer must own 101 to 500 head of lambs annually; and three producers must own more than

Two Producers Appointed To Sheep Center Board

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he U.S. Department of Agriculture announced in January the appointment of one producer and an expert in finance and management to each serve as members on the National

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