Sheep Industry News July 2025

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ON THE COVER: Targhee sheep from Wyoming unload at Clark Webster’s place in Utah.

The Ranchers of Iron County Mike Clark gets emotional when he talks about trailing sheep off Cedar Mountain to the valley just west of Cedar City, Utah. He’s a fourth-generation rancher who likes walking in the footsteps of his ancestors and has vowed to preserve that path for his son and grandson.

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MIWW Plans New Contests

USDA Takes New Steps to Address Screwworm Threat In May, the U.S. Department of Agricul ture moved to protect U.S. producers from a New World Screwworm (NWS) incursion by closing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Sheep producers are used to viewing the National Make It With Wool Contest each year at the ASI Annual Convention, but the MIWW program has developed three new contests in 2025.

It’s only fitting that the first ASI Convention I attended took place in Scottsdale, Ariz., in 2016. I worked what will most likely be my last one earlier this year at the Scottsdale Plaza Resort.

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