ASI Weekly Newsletter
February 2010
February 26, 2010
The number of operations with sheep totaled 82,000 for 2009, down slightly from 2008. The number of operation with 1-99 head of sheep increased from 2008 to 2009 while those operations with 100-499...
February 26, 2010
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission (FWP) approved the state's first-ever statewide plan for managing bighorn sheep. Officials say they hope the conservation plan will all...
February 26, 2010
Today, the Federal Crop Insurance Cooperation (FCIC), operated through the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Risk Management Agency (RMA), announced the availability of approximately $1.1 million fo...
February 26, 2010
JBS South America announced this week that its Australian business, Swift Australia, completed the acquisition of Tatiara Meat Co. after receiving approval for the merger from Australian regulatory...
February 26, 2010
Wool carpet is a more affordable option than used to be the case, an expert has noted. In a feature on sustainable flooring choices, the Times Colonist in Canada quoted interiors expert Greg Holtz ...
February 26, 2010
Feld Entertainment Inc., which operates the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, has brought a Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) lawsuit against the Humane Society of...
February 26, 2010
According to chairman of the Russian National Sheep Union, Charon Amerhanov, the decline in the number of sheep and goats observed in Russia in recent years has been stopped. For the last 10 years,...
February 26, 2010
House Agriculture Chairman Collin Peterson this week outlined his plans to begin the process of writing the next Farm Bill as early as this spring during a meeting of livestock and commodity groups...
February 19, 2010
During the Carpet and Flooring Show "SURFACES" held in Las Vegas, Nev., in early February, a video message from Prince Charles was officially launched in an attempt to kick start a wool awareness c...
February 19, 2010
Australian wool exporters are increasingly concerned that they are selling to one market, China. 80 percent of Australian wool now ends up in China, and as a result, less wool is going to the once ...