Ken Emrick keeps an eye on the calendar. Springtime can be especially busy, calculating how many lambs will be born. As head of sales for Mountain States Rosen, the only national U.S. producer-owned ...

IRETON, Iowa — Sheep producers gathered in Ireton last week to hear Iowa State University Extension Sheep specialist Dan Morrical talk about using ethanol co-products in sheep rations. Trials continue ...

A big question facing WA farmers is whether to “keep the sheep” now the live export trade, which has provided a key market ...

Less meat may be headed to dinner plates in the coming months. The nation's production of beef, pork and lamb fell last month amid the global economic downturn and a continuing drought in parts of the ...

When the Mountain States Rosen lamb plant in Greeley announced its closure last month, the transaction was projected to have a major effect on the lamb industry nationwide. The implications of the ...

Donna Buskohl was instrumental in starting one of the state’s largest lamb feeding businesses. She and her husband, David, created Buskohl Lamb Feedlot so Donna could raise her family at home. But ...

A lamb slaughterhouse likely will be built in Brush and bring at least 50 jobs to the city within the next year. The Brush City Council on Monday night voted unanimously to grant a special use permit ...

Garry, brother Terry, and wife Rhonda and their sons Daniel and Jason, along with their grandson Dylan run the operation that integrates, livestock, winter crops and prime lambs in an area that boasts ...

Over the last 20 years, the number of sheep in the U.S. has plummeted by half. The sheep industry has actually been declining since the late 1940s, when it hit its peak. The sharp drop in production ...