) American Sheep Producers
DENVER, Colo. - There
was no doubt left that the
American sheep industry
has many opportunities to
grow and expand its num
bers over the next few years
if they can meet the
challenge of high labor costs
and predators.
This was the keynote of the
26th Annual Meeting of the
American Sheep Producers
Council this past week at the
Cosmopolitan Hotel in
Denver.
Particular emphasis was
given to the tremendous
opportunities in the food
service field for domestic
lamb by speakers on the
program including Brian
Harron, Executive Vice
President of the National
Restaurant Association, as
well as Zoe Coulson of the
W}ood Housekeeping Institute
* in New York.
Re-elected as officers of
the Council, which is anation
wide promotion organization
headquartered in -Denver,
were E. William Hess,
president, of Barboursville,
Virginia; Chris Jouflas, vice
president, of Grand Junc
tion, Colorado; and Bill
Pfluger, secretary-treasur
er, of San Angelo, Texas.
Jouflas is also president of
the Colorado Wool Growers
Association and chairman of
the board of the Agriculture
Council of America.
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Committee Chairman was
Paul Getz of Columbus,
Ohio, and named to head up
the l-amh Advisory Com
mittee is P. J. Cook of Belle
Fourche, South Dakota. The
two other members of the
Council’s Executive Com
mittee are Roscoe Rich of
Burley, Idaho, president of
the National Wool Growers
Association, and Norman
Palm of Elk Mountain,
Wyoming, who is president
of the National Lamb
Feeders’ Association.
The annual meeting of 104
delegates and directors saw
new opportunities in an
expanded foodservice
program by the Council
which will encourage more
use of lamb in the dine-out
industry.
Harron said the National
Restaurant Association
estimates that the fast food
sector now comprises about
one-third of the commercial
food market and that by 1990
the dine out or meals eaten
away from home trend will
account for almost 50 per
cent of the average food
consumption.
He said because there are
more working women in the
labor force, there is a
greater trend toward dining
out, and leading the growth
in this area is the fast food or
quick meal type of
restaurant.
He encouraged American
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sheepmen to increase their
production and take ad
vantage of this market,
which is not being filled by
domestic production.
Other speakers on the
program added their em
phasis to the fact that the
sheep industry must grow,
having fallen to its lowest
pomt in numbers since the
Civil War.
A Blueprint for Expansion
program anticipates there
will be a turnaround in sheep
numbers in 1980 and the start
of, a gradual growth over the
next eight years
Hess said the industry has
taken the initiative to
develop some long range
plans, as well as the current
enthusiasm within the in
dustry as reflected in higher
pnces and greater demand
for breeding stock.
Dick Biglin, executive /
director of the Council, said
that the promotion program
for lamb and wool is going to
expand in anticipation of the
growth of the sheep industry.
He cited the severe
competition from imports
from New Zealand and
Australia, but the domestic
producer must realize he
must provide more product
to satisfy the demand if he is
going to be competitive.
There are numerous op
portunities for growth in the
sheep industry, for a gi eater
use of lamb and wool, but the
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industry must realize that it
is in a desperate fight for
survival m a highly com
petitive market.
Coulson of the Good
Housekeeping Institute said
there are great changes
taking place m our life styles
through the country, and
that the promotion of lamb
and wool, and the industry
itself, should be very aware
of these changes.
She cited the change in the
attitude of parents toward
their children and the fact
that parents are much more
inclined now to live their own
lives after the children leave
home.
She said there is a great
deal more interest in people
doing things for themselves,
including cooking and
sewing and home main
tenance. There is a
tremendous growth in the
security aspect of buildings
and homes. There is
becoming a predominance of
one and two member
households, and there are a
large number of senior
citizens who will make up an
increasing proportion of our
population.
The delegate body gave a
vote of appreciation and
confidence to the American
members of the Lamb
Promotion Coordination
Committee, who are Howard
Derrick of Eldorado, Texas;
Jamie Kothman of Menard,
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St. Anthony, Idaho.
The LPCC is a joint
committee of the U.S.,
Australia and New Zealand
to discuss conditions in the
various countries and outline
problems within the various
sheep industries in those
countries. LPCC also con
ducts an educational
program through ASPC to
which all three countries
contribute funds.
The outlook for wool is
extremely good, as cited by
Felix J. Colangelo, president
of The Wool Bureau in New
York. The Wool Bureau is
part of the International
Wool.. Secretariat and is
supported by foreign wool
growers in five countries,
including the major wool
producing countries of
Australia and New Zealand.
The Wool Bureau,
Colangelo pointed out,
promotes wool in this
country without reference to
country or origin, nor do
they favor one type of wool
over another. This accrues
to the benefit of the domestic
wool growers in the U.S.,
Australia, New Zealand,
South America and
Uruguay combine to account
for about 50 per cent of the
world wool production and
supply about 80 per cent of
the raw wool in the in
ternational trade. The U.S.
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produces only about 100
million pounds a year.
Colangelo said the IWS
operates branch offices in 26
countries, with technical and
market development offices
in several other countries,
including one in the U.S. The
IWS has about 14,000
woolmark licenses in these
46 countries.
He said there is a great
opportunity for increased
consumption of wool in this
country and that the natural
fibers have a unique op
portunity in the face of in
creased emphasis on con
servation of energy. He said
wool sweaters, wool blankets
and wool garments in
general have been in much
greater demand during the
past two years.
Our motto, he said, is
“Don’t touch that ther
mostat - just put on a wool
sweater.”
Winners of the Silver Ram
Awards, which are
presented annually, one for
production and the other for
research or extension, went
to Robert Blackford,
Wheatland, California, for
production; and to Ken
Faulkner of Laramie,
Wyoming, an extension
livestock specialist who
retired last year from his
position with the University
of Wyoming.
Blackford is an out
standing sheep producer
who was last year named
Man of the Year in Livestock,
in California and is a former
president of the American
Sheep Producers Council.
The two advisory com
mittees of the Council were
named, and include for the
Lamb Advisory Committee
P. J. Cook of Belle Fourche,
South Dakota; William H.
Balden, Danville, Kentucky;
Bill Schneemann, Big Lake,
Texas; Tim Indart, Clovis,
California; and Pete P.<
Clathis, Grand Junction,
Colorado. Hie Wool Ad
visory Committee members
are Paul A. Getz, Columbus,
Ohio; Edgar Olson, Fosston,
Minnesota; Martin War
dlaw, Del Rio, Texas;
William R. Taliaferro, Rock
Springs, Wyoming; and Sam
N. Choumos, Tremonton,
Utah. .
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