FARGO - Shepherds have some simple ways to capitalize on one of the best lamb and wool markets the American sheep industry has seen. One of them is shearing sheep. It can have tremendous impacts on ...

When city folk think of lamb, they may think of very young sheep — perhaps 6 weeks old. But 6 months is the average age of spring lamb going to market these days. Don Van Nostran has one in a holding ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — Usually when we think of storms; clouds, thunder, lighting, and rain come to mind. Professors at the University of Arkansas at Monticello are calling the recent boom in sheep ...

Successful lambing and kidding is critical to the profitability of sheep and goat operations. The lambing and kidding time period poses one of the biggest risks to profitability in the annual ...

Each year, the UK sheep industry lambs 15m breeding ewes in a huge variety of systems and locations. From sea level to hill top, they lamb in every month of the year. “Out-of-season” breeds might opt ...

Lamb prices are up a bit, with increased demand throughout the country. The demand for lamb is specifically being seen in the ...

Introducing some smart technology, buying a quad bike and replacing a sheep breed on the family livestock farm seem easy ...

Landward Executive Editor Lynne Mennie and her husband are sheep farmers in Aberdeenshire. Here she writes about some of the highs and lows of lambing season. It doesn't matter how often you see it, ...