ASI Weekly Newsletter
September 2003
September 26, 2003
Sheep producers from Australia, New Zealand and the United States met in Washington, D.C., on Thursday of this week. The following national organizations were represented: American Sheep Industr...
September 26, 2003
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is administering the Loan Deficiency Program (LDP) for producers who produce non-graded wool in the form of unshorn pelts for the 2002 through the 2007 crop yea...
September 26, 2003
Representatives from the Canadian sheep industry, including the Canadian Sheep Federation, came to Washington, D.C., to meet with the American Sheep Industry Association (ASI), National Lamb Feed...
September 26, 2003
September 26, 2003
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported today that the Australian Federal Government has found a port willing to take the more than 50,000 stranded sheep on board the livestock vessel, t...
September 26, 2003
The 107th annual meeting of the U.S. Animal Health Association (USAHA) will take place in San Diego, Calif., Oct. 9-16, 2003, in conjunction with the 46th annual meeting of the American Associa...
September 26, 2003
The Ohio Sheep Improvement Association is seeking applications for the position of Part-time Executive Director. Qualified applicants will have sheep industry knowledge, legislative experience ...
September 26, 2003
Consumers are very interested in the safety of the food they eat as well as the quality of the products they buy. Quality and product safety are issues the industry and its producers are accounta...
September 26, 2003
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported that a bottleneck of processed wool and fabric in China and the rise in the Australian currency is dampening demand for greasy wool in Australia.
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September 26, 2003
Leading Icelandic meat processor, Nordlenska, is expected to more than double its exports of mountain-reared lamb to the United States this year, reported Farming Life.
Following a visit by a de...