US Perspective on Sheep Inventories and Lamb Prices

At the recent 2013 Sheep Symposium, Integrating Advanced Concepts into Traditional Practices, held at Montana State University, D. P. Anderson gave his perspective on what has been happening to US lamb prices over the past year in a presentation called “ADVENTURES IN THIN MARKETS, CONTRACTING AND CONCENTRATION: TODAY’S LAMB MARKET”.  Although the Ontario market is different than the United States market, the US price has an influence on the prices received here in Ontario.  To read the full article, go to page 49 in the pdf or page 36 of the actual proceedings document. In a presentation called “SHEEP, BLACK SWANS, AND THE FUTURE OF AGRICULTURE”,  J. W. Walker has an interesting perspective on  the ongoing decline of the United…