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With a detailed ten-year
plan for expansion, the
American Sheep Industry
has applied the brakes to a
30-year decline in sheep
numbers during an historic
meeting at Winrock Farms,
near Morrilton, Arkansas on
June 22 and 23.
Heads of the major sheep
industry organizations
banded together in a joint
commitment for growth of
the sheep industry calling for
at least 50 percent increase
in the numbers of breeding
ewes by 1985. The meeting
was jointly sponsored by the
Sheep Industry Development
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Livestock Research and
Training Center.
The sheep industry is the
first major livestock interest
to use the Conference Center
in developing a “Blueprint
for Expansion of the
American Sheep Industry.”
The two-day meeting in
cluded representatives of
every facet of production,
research and marketing.
Richard D. Biglin, Executive
Director of the American
Sheep Producers Council,
Denver, Colorado, combined
with Dr. Hudson Glimp of the
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Foundation, in coordinating
the historic meeting.
The meeting was broken
down into six separate
groups on discussions of
marketing, predator and
land use, production goals,
research and education,
organization structure and
labor.
Of particular interest to
the future of the American
Sheep Industry were the
specific goals outlining the
future development until
1985, including a 50 percent
increase in replacement ewe
numbers, a 25 percent in
crease in the percent of lamb
crops weaned and 15 percent
increase in the average
market weight per lamb.
The plan will allow a
doubling of lamb without
doubling the numbers of
sheep. However, these goals
were based on the overriding
assumption that an effective
means of predator
management would be in-
troduced soon.
Highlighting the recom
mendations from the
predators and land use
committee was the request
to sponsor a national con
ference on the predator to
present factual data to all
interested parties; to also
organize and publish factual
materials for the benefit of
all interested parties and to
develop educational and
training programs for ap
propriate control agents.
In a committee concerning
organization structure, it
was recommended that the
American Sheep Industry
strive for a unified direction
with a single voice and work
for a possible consolidation
of organizations represen
ting the sheep industry. In
addition, better com
munications were urged for
all areas, and an industry
leadership development
program was strongly en
couraged. The national
presidents of the four major
sheep organizations were
charged with the respon
sibility of continuing the
momentum to develop the
new suggested sheep
organization structures.
In the area of marketing, it
was recommended that a
formation of a complete
business organization be set
up to trade domestically and
internationally in sheep and
sheep products in such a way
as to maintain a strong and
consistent market for sheep
in the U.S. In addition, it was
encouraged that the sheep
industry establish sheep and
lamb tele-a-auctions,
recommending eventually
no more than four regionally
in the United States. The
ASPC and SIDP were
charged with the respon
sibility of developing a
method for analysis and an
information source for
keeping producers and
marketing agents informed
relative to wool market
developments and outlook.
Among the most
progressive advances made
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at the meeting were done In
the area of labor. A com
mittee named by the
president of the National
Wool Growers Association
was formed with the purpose
of developing a labor policy
to cover all phases of the
sheep industry, working in
cooperation with established
organizations concerned
with the problem.
This labor committee will
meet as soon as possible to
define the standards for
industry jobs, such as range
livestock employees and
shearers, and will attempt to
meet with the Department of
Labor as soon as possible to
bring about workable labor
programs. In addition, the
committee will take the
initiative to work with Oc
cupational Safety and Health
Administration, and to act as
a representative of the
American Sheep Industry to
the Department of Labor.
Among the most
significant advances made
in the Research and
Education field was the
recommendation to develop
a research program adapted
to a regional concept in the
United States. These
research centers would
utilize existing facilities but
require additional staffing
and funding.
The group also endorsed
the establishment of an
international sheep and goat
coordinating council to
coordinate and develop
support for research and
training programs for sheep
and goats in the arid and
subtropical regions of the
world.' The Winthrop In
ternational Livestock
Research and Training
Center will help provide the
leadership in developing this
program.
In the educational Reid, it
was recommended to
develop a better system of
informing sheepmen, the
financial community, allied
industries and the business
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aector concerning the profit
potential and overall future
poisibllltiea for the
American Sheep Industry.
Dr. Richard 0. Wheeler,
Director of the Winrock
Center, expressed the desire
of the foundation to assist the
industry and provide
leadership in those areas of
research and training
programs that will both
improve livestock produc
tion efficiency and improve
human nutrition.
After completing all of the
recommendations, the final
task for the group was to
outline a blueprint for im
plementation of such
recommendations. Probably
the most significant aspect
of the meeting was the
establishment of specific
names, dates and
procedures to be used in
follow-up work.
Richard D. Biglin, com
menting on the success of the
meeting, said, “Now that
we’ve completed one of the
most successful meetings in
the history of the sheep in
dustry, we must be com
mitted to carry out the
suggestions and recom
mendations made at this
meeting.”
“All organizations in the
American Sheep Industry
are already making a unified
effort to begin the great
upward trend of this in
dustry,” added Biglin.
In addressing the group,
Dr. Hudson A. Glixnp said,
“None of us really know
what the future role of this
industry in meeting world
food and fiber needs will be,
but it is our belief that the
industry is in a better
position to determine its own
destiny than anyone else.
The important point is, if you
as an industry do not do this,
then it will be done by others
that may not understand or
care about your situation or
the industry’s potential for
progress and contribution to
society.”
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