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Lamb Imports Under Federal Review

Published Yesterday

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission to investigate whether imported fresh, chilled and frozen lamb is causing serious injury to the domestic sheep industry. The move comes after lamb imports have increased more than…

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American Lamb Board Opens $350K Research Funding

Published October 17, 2025

The American Lamb Board is offering $350,000 in research funding for fiscal year 2026 to support projects that strengthen the U.S. lamb industry. Proposals are being sought for initiatives that expand domestic sheep production and improve the quality and marketability…

R-CALF Seeks America First Trade Policy for Lamb & Mutton

Published March 19, 2025

R-CALF USA is asking the Commerce Department to begin a Section 232 investigation into lamb and mutton imports. Imports now represent 70 percent of the U.S. lamb and mutton market. R-CALF said the import relief measures would revitalize the domestic…

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Lamb Processer Will Remain in Business

Published November 7, 2024

In Denver, voters rejected a ballot measure that would have banned slaughterhouses within city limits. The facility targeted with this initiative is Superior Farms, which processes as much as 20 percent of the U.S. lamb supply.

Recommendations Offered for Lamb Producers

Published August 26, 2022

A report from the American Lamb Board identifies on-farm practices that will impact lamb quality. During the American Lamb Summit, researchers highlighted the need to select genetics based on estimated breeding values. The importance of crossbreeding was also highlighted.

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A Smaller Lamb Crop

Published February 1, 2022

According to the annual report from USDA, the 2021 lamb crop totaled 3.1 million head. That’s down two percent from 2020. South Dakota’s lamb crop totaled 200,000 head, unchanged from one year ago. Minnesota has 85,000 lambs, down six percent…

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Lamb Market ‘Couldn’t Be Much Better’

Published December 20, 2021

NDSU and University of Minnesota Extension Sheep Specialist Travis Hoffman says the lamb market has been at a steady incline for the last year. "It really couldn't be much better. We've had as lucrative of a 2021 as anyone could've…

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A ‘Record-Breaking’ Performance for U.S. Red Meat

Published May 7, 2021

U.S. red meat exports had a record-breaking performance in March to end the first quarter. Both beef and pork exports posted the highest monthly value on record, coming in at 124,800 metric tons and 294,700 metric tons, respectively. U.S. Meat…

Sheep Industry Shocked by Processing Plant Takeover

Published July 31, 2020

South Dakota Stockgrowers Association Executive Director James Halverson is upset with the JBS decision to shut down lamb processing at its newly acquired plant in Colorado. "I don't know that hardly anybody knew about this before the last couple of…

Lamb Processing Plant to be Shuttered

Published July 31, 2020

JBS is scheduled to close on its acquisition of the Mountain States Rosen lamb processing plant in Greeley, Colorado later today. The second largest lamb packing plant in the U.S. was forced into bankruptcy when the foodservice industry shutdown during…

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Lamb Imports Under Federal Review

American Lamb Board Opens $350K Research Funding

R-CALF Seeks America First Trade Policy for Lamb & Mutton

Lamb Processer Will Remain in Business

Recommendations Offered for Lamb Producers

A Smaller Lamb Crop

Lamb Market ‘Couldn’t Be Much Better’

A ‘Record-Breaking’ Performance for U.S. Red Meat

Sheep Industry Shocked by Processing Plant Takeover

Lamb Processing Plant to be Shuttered

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