American Sheep Industry

ASI Sheep Cast: Sage Grouse Comments, ELD and Convention around the corner by American Sheep Industry

This week, we talk about the upcoming ASI convention, highlighting the Young Entrepreneur program for young and beginning sheep producers.

As 2017 comes to a close, we look at updates on some key priorities for the sheep industry including the status of electronic logging for livestock haulers, ongoing litigation threatening the industry and the tax reform package.

This week, ASI sits down with Indiana Director Dr. Stan Poe, as ASI officers travel to Washington, D.C. to discuss priorities for the Sheep Industry including trade, scrapie and Wildlife Services predator control.

This week, the American Sheep Industry visits with Peter Ackroyd, President of the International Wool Textile Organization (IWTO) at the mid-year meeting in Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

This week, ASI submits comments to postpone enforcement of the Electronic Logging Device rule and pushes back against lawsuits aimed at preventing grazing on Federal lands.

This week, the American Sheep Industry looks at the Agricultural Guestworker Act, discusses tax reform priorities and comments on the upcoming BLM Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting.

On this week’s SheepCast, we look at possible boundary changes to monument designations on existing public lands and efforts to strengthen export programs.

This week, the American Sheep Industry Association reviews the proposed WOTUS rule and discusses ASI’s fiscal year 2018 budget.

This week, the American Sheep Industry Association discusses the economic impact of the sheep industry to the U.S. economy and the inclusion of data from cooperatives in USDA price reporting.