Traditional Easter and Passover lamb-centered meals mark peak season for the often overlooked protein. But one year ago, the arrival of the pandemic sent the U.S. lamb industry into a tailspin.
- Phyllis Coulter
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Even face coverings couldn’t hide the joy of many young people attending the first weekend of the Illinois Junior Livestock Expo Sept. 11.
- Amy Hadachek
There’s a new dairy business in Manhattan, Kan. — and the owner/operator, who recently retired from an almost-30-year career as a medical doctor delivering babies and conducting gynecologic surgery, will begin making specialty goat cheeses later this month.
- By PETER SCHARPE Minnesota Farm Guide
HUTCHINSON, Minn. – Sheep can be relatively easy to maintain – except for that time of year when they must be shorn.
- By SUE ROESLER, Farm & Ranch Guide
NEW SALEM, N.D. – Yakety Yak. Yakety Yak.
- By PETER SCHARPE Minnesota Farm Guide
ROSE CITY, MN – Lambing season is in full swing for Minnesota’s sheep producers. For the Haffner Family Farm of Rose City, MN, the first of their 150 ewes began lambing the last few days of February.
USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service released its U.S. and Canadian Cattle and Sheep and U.S. and Canadian Hogs reports today (March 7).
- Jane Fyksen 715-683-2779
MADISON, Wis. – Jan. 17 marked the end of a steady leadership presence for Wisconsin’s sheep industry. It was Dave Thomas’ last day as University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of sheep management and genetics. Thomas retired after more than 25 years as sheep specialist at UW-Madison.
- By Austin Black, Missouri Farmer Today
APPLETON CITY, Mo. — Good management is key to a successful lambing season.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture National Animal Health Monitoring System
FORT COLLINS, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Animal Health Monitoring System released the first report from its Equine 2015 study, Baseline Reference of Equine Health and Management in the United States, 2015. The Equine 2015 study is National Animal Health Monitoring …
Indianhead Sheep Breeders Association Shepherds’ Clinic will be held beginning at 8:45 a.m. Feb. 4 in the Conference Center of the Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, 1900 College Drive, Rice Lake, Wisconsin.
- Mary Hookham For Agri-View
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. – The Villa Louis Carriage Classic showcases competitive carriage driving, highly trained horses and ponies, and dedicated drivers – all to create high-class elegance both inside the show ring and out.
BLACK RIVER FALLS, Wis. -- After the release of an additional 50 elk in Wisconsin's eastern Jackson County in July, the herd has continued to settle into their primary range.
SPOONER, Wis. — Eighty years of sheep research and outreach came to an end with the dispersal Oct. 13 of the dairy-sheep flock at the University of Wisconsin-Spooner Agricultural Research Station. Strong buyer competition for the sheep indicated that the dairy sheep developed by UW-Madison w…
MANHATTAN, Kan. — A newly patented vaccine by Kansas State University researchers could be good news for meat consumers.
- Janelle Atyeo
Comparing elk to raising beef cattle, producers say elk require less feed and less land and are generally less expensive.