Press Releases
September 2009
September 15, 2009
DENVER, Colo. - Nov. 20, 2009, marks the deadline for the submission of nominations for the annual American Sheep Industry Association Awards.
September 10, 2009
Denver, Colo. - The American Sheep Industry Association (ASI) Board of Directors in August unanimously approved the association's fiscal year 2009-2010 Wool Trust budget as well as the legislative/...
September 10, 2009
Denver, Colo. - Sheep producers will be glad to hear that the Livestock Risk Protection-Lamb (LRP-Lamb) insurance will again be available for sale on Monday, Sept. 14. LRP-Lamb is designed to insur...
July 2009
July 31, 2009
The American Sheep Industry Association’s (ASI) Goat Committee is pleased to announce the election of the interim board of directors for the first-ever national organization devoted to the goat ind...
July 03, 2009
Denver, Colo. - The long-awaited details of the first livestock indemnity program to assist sheep producers who have had death losses in excess of the normal mortality due to adverse weather were r...
June 2009
June 11, 2009
DENVER, Colo. - Attention all photographers: It is time to start thinking about the American Sheep Industry Association's (ASI) 2009 Photo Contest.
April 2009
April 23, 2009
Denver, Colo. - April 23, 2009 - By an astounding margin of 85.1 percent, the members of the U.S. sheep industry voted to continue the deduction on sheep sales to support the marketing of American ...
March 2009
March 31, 2009
Denver, Colo. - March 31, 2009 -- The U.S. sheep industry applauds the purchase of up to $2 million of lamb to be donated to federal food and nutrition programs.
February 2009
February 06, 2009
Denver, Colo. -- Feb. 6, 2009 -- The efforts by animal rights’ groups to eliminate the use of Sodium Cyanide used in M-44s
and Compound 1080 (sodium flouroacetate) used in Livestock Protection Co...
February 03, 2009
Denver, Colo. - Feb. 2, 2009 - Bud
Gutzman of Stockman, Calif., and Jim Elliott of Salt Lake City, Utah, are this year's two deserving recipients of this wool industry award.