Sheep Industry News June 2024

2024 ASI Photo Contest Now Accepting Entries It’s time to start sorting through those great photos you took the past few years and prepare to enter them in the 2024 ASI Photo Contest. Winning entries will be featured in the October issue of the Sheep Industry News .

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Donate Now to Support Guard Dog, Sheep Heritage Predators come in many forms for America’s sheep flock. While coyotes and wolves stalk lambs under the cover of night, the daylight hours present sheep producers with their own set of challenges – ones that often pit men in suits battling before judges and juries.

Producers Need To Be Involved in Predator Management

YE Spotlight: Tucker & Emily West Five years ago, Tucker and Emily West didn’t know what to think about sheep. They’d raised cows, goats and chickens, but sheep were an enigma to the young couple. They put their concerns aside and purchased 10 ewes.

Dalmatians, Holsteins Prior to the second week in May, the Dutch Spotted Sheep Society U.S. had more human members than registered sheep. That anomaly took a step toward

To increase livestock producer understanding and support of predator control efforts, producers should be

encouraged to become involved in the process.

correcting itself when six sheep were born in Glover, Vt.

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