Sheep Industry News March 2024

Shearers Balance Competing Interests

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Despite popular opinion amongst some producers, shearers aren’t trying to make your life more difficult. Maybe it seems that way sometimes, but the truth is that like sheep producers they are just trying to balance the needs of their customers with the best interests of their businesses.

Washington

45

260

63

180 1.380

Maine

Montana

Minnesota

370

155

Idaho

North Dakota

Vt.

900

111

Wisconsin

56 170

210 1.460

Mass. N.H.

235

86 250

Michigan

Oregon

600

320 2.300

1.510

78 315

New York

South Dakota

82 340

R.I.

Iowa

Conn.

76

99 300

60

Wyoming

155

Illinois

New Jersey

245

360

Pennsylvania

Indiana

Utah

143 500

740

Nebraska

MD

400 2.280

Delaware

California

55

80 250

Nevada

35 80

270 2.200

Ohio

Missouri

79 140

167

82

West Virginia

Kansas

75

500 2.300

Sheep & Lamb 1,ooo Head Wool Production 1,ooo Pounds

Virginia

Colorado

107

310

Kentucky

65

279

South Carolina North Carolina

32 30

ARIZONA

NEW MEXICO

51 48

70 71

Tenessee

105 445

75

Oklahoma Arkansas

500

TEXAS

Georgia

Alabama

Mississippi

655

Louisiana

1.250

Florida

205 285

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20 Rosemary & Thyme Creamery Makes A Name for Itself It’s just about time to make the cheese at Rosemary and Thyme Creamery in northwest Georgia.

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Sheep Inventory Report

Changing Your Lambing Calendar It’s finally springtime,

Shearers Compete for National Titles

The U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Statistics Service Released the 2024 Sheep Inventory Report, which showed the American flock has fallen to 5.03 million head.

meaning flocks everywhere are filled with new lambs and the excitement this season brings each year.

The 2024 National Shearing Competition was conducted on Jan. 29 as part of the All American Sheep Day at the Black Hills Stock Show & Rodeo in Rapid City, S.D.

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