Resolve to Make 2025 Your Best Year Yet with Educational Events
The American Lamb Board’s 2025 program includes workshops and summits aimed at equipping sheep producers with the necessary tools and resources to profitably grow their operations. Begin planning your year by discovering more about these upcoming opportunities.
Six Target Grazing Workshops Planned
The rapid development of utility-scale solar farms across the country has stimulated a significant need for sheep grazing as a means of vegetation management. There are also increasing opportunities for sheep grazing contracts in wildfire-prone areas and vineyards. Sheep grazing helps to eliminate dried plants that might otherwise become wildfire fuel, and grazing in vineyards and other regions helps clear weeds while reducing or eliminating herbicide use.
ALB’s Targeted Grazing Workshops provide sheep producers a unique chance to learn about these paid grazing contracts, which offer significant potential for expanding the U.S. sheep flock, enhancing the availability and price competitiveness of American Lamb.
ALB hosted the first round of in-depth educational workshops in 2024. The workshops were so successful that six additional workshops are planned for 2025.
“These grazing opportunities offer current and emerging sheep producers the chance to increase their profitability and grow flock numbers,” says ALB Chair Jeff Ebert. “The workshops help producers learn how to take advantage of these opportunities in their area.”
Most three-day events consist of two interactive classroom days, followed by a field day, and cover a range of topics, including vegetation management for solar arrays, vineyards, and fire suppression.
The workshops planned for 2025 include:
· April in California
· May in Texas
· June in Illinois
· August in Maryland
· September in Colorado
· October in Kentucky
Learn more on the Lamb Board website.
2025 American Lamb Summit
The American Lamb Summit is scheduled for July 22-25, 2025, at the University of Idaho. This biennial industry event addresses critical strategies to improve the sheep industry’s competitiveness and profitability.
The American Lamb Summit seeks to inspire a new level of change and collaboration across all sectors of the US lamb industry as it works to improve competitiveness, product quality, and productivity through increased use of the most efficient, progressive management tools.
2025 event highlights include: Meeting Marketing Demand, Developing Profitable Grazing Systems, Defining Lamb Quality and Hitting Carcass Targets, Increasing Production Efficiency.
Learn more and register for this event on the Lamb Board website.