Sheep Industry News November 2024

American Wool Holiday Gift Guide

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The American Wool website has put together this year's ultimate holiday gift guide, where sustainability meets style with American wool. The gift guide showcases products that will stand the test of time, featuring 25 different brands and five different shopping categories.

Visit the American Wool website for this year’s ultimate gift guide, where sustainability meets style with American Wool! In a world where fast fashion pollutes our planet and cheap trends come and go, the gift guide showcases products that will stand the test of time. Featuring 25 different brands and 5 different shopping categories you’ll want to share the guide with friends and remind them that by choosing gifts made with American wool, they’re not only supporting local ranchers, American brands, and trusted manufacturers but also making a conscious choice to reduce waste and embrace a more sustainable future for all of us. just a preview

View the entire gift guide online:

americanwool.org/gifts

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20 Agrivoltaics: Grazing Meets Solar Farms

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2025 ASI Annual Convention

Trailing of the Sheep Celebrates John Peavey Jake Peavey’s earliest memories of the Trailing of the Sheep Festival begin when he was a toddler, riding on a flat-bed trailer watching in wonderment as crowds lined Main Street in Ketchum, Idaho, to see his family’s flock of sheep move south.

Hurricanes Wash Out Military Wool Tour

In the United States, large swaths of land have been – or are currently being – converted to large-scale solar farms, many acres of which have been obtained from farmers and ranchers, but the sheep industry has seen benefits.

Registration for the 2025 ASI Annual Convention opened in October. The Scottsdale (Ariz.) Plaza Resort will once again host the convention on Jan. 15-18, 2025. Early bird registration is available now through Dec. 2 at a discounted rate.

An especially busy fall hurricane season forced ASI to cancel the 2024 Wool Education Tour that would have taken military decisionmakers to several sites that play a key role in the American wool manufacturing supply chain.

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