I think the future for this industry is land restoration with AMP grazing. We just need to figure out how to compensate regenerative ranchers for improving the planet for us.
Absolutely. Regenerative products are so much healthier for everyone, including the planet. Big Ag needs to pull the plug on itself by helping the transition. Government and banks could facilitate the move away from chemicals to help our population become more healthy. Wearing synthetics is unhealthy for us. If people simply knew how sick our clothing has made us, they would change. Lamb is different from mutton. That is such a childish "war" habit. It is time to get beyond those times. Thanks to films like this one and Carbon Cowboys who produced Dirt So Deep, perhaps we can help all.
Here in New Zealand the only sheep worth their weight in wool are the Merino Sheep whose wool is sold to the Major Italian Woolen Mills for Bespoke Men's suits and Cardigans and to the Icebreaker Clothing Company with one sheep station alone having 30,000 merino's on a 100,000 acres sheep station
I do have about 20 Australian Merino fleeces, which I am slowly hand processing into yarn for myself. Wool and other natural fibers are so much healthier to wear. We have 2 Icebreaker stores in our area, and I love wearing their products. Don't forget Polworth fleece. It is a very nice wool which oft times I prefer to knit over Merino. The Longwool breeds really do a better job of holding stitch definition. Wear more wool! Or other natural fibers.
@kristinbryant6669 There are people who love the flavor of the Border Leicester sheep breed for great tasting lamb. I have found a local source for Romney lamb. Buy local if you can, or find lamb from the US online. Meat can ship just about everywhere.
@@brandonyi2547Lambs are slaughtered at less than a year old. The meat is mild flavored and tender. Mutton (adult sheep) is strong flavored and tougher (best used as stew or cooked until it falls apart).
There is something wrong in the global economic order. If the US wants to retain the dominance of the dollar it should implement the following: 1. NEVER allow the manufacturing of appliances and heavy equipment to get out of the US mainland. 2. Factory and farm workers could include migrants on work visas. This would generate huge income for the corporations which... 3. ...should be taxed more. 4. Taxes from global corporations should be used to finance loans in the migrants' countries of origin to industrialize GreenTech food production, power generation, roads and housing infrastructure to improve the standards of living of the migrants workers. Further investments could be in the production and processing of new industrial materials like bamboo textiles, engineered lumber, activated carbon, livestock feed, etc. as items in fair trade deals. 5. Remaining taxes should be spent on welfare, housing and student loans for US citizens.
US ranchers are NOT oversupplying our domestic markets with either wool or lamb. We are competing against cheap foreign imports that are produced in a manner that is not allowed here. Please do not trivialize problems that huge swathes of agriculture are enduring with your flippant attitude.
@dhand34 It is time to raise awareness about the true cost of synthetic clothing. Even some knitters did not know that acrylic yarn came from oil. I would rather conserve oil for better use and wear natural fibers like wool. That is much healthier. Plus, demand would be raised to a realistic level where sheep ranchers could thrive. Using oil for clothing is creating a false sense of source security. You have noticed the cost of gasoline has risen over the past 50 years?
Native Americans had animals to domesticate and they didn't. They had bighorn sheep, dall sheep, musk ox and bison. Sheep herding (without ranches) enabled the large empires on the Eurasian continent in the cold steppes.
Check the Navajo Nation. The US government killed 1 million Navajo sheep because it was believed they overgrazed. It's funny how plowing up the Prairies causing the Dust Bowl did not stop the wheat and corn farmers from further degrading our Nation's best soil. Navajo wool is not particularly great for wearing next to the skin (except for lambswool) but fantastic for beautiful Navajo rugs that are sold each year at ANE auction.
One of the most underrated meat. A lamb roast is delicious. Ground lamb to make actual Sheppard's pie, fantastic.
Grea video !!!
I think the future for this industry is land restoration with AMP grazing. We just need to figure out how to compensate regenerative ranchers for improving the planet for us.
Absolutely. Regenerative products are so much healthier for everyone, including the planet. Big Ag needs to pull the plug on itself by helping the transition. Government and banks could facilitate the move away from chemicals to help our population become more healthy. Wearing synthetics is unhealthy for us. If people simply knew how sick our clothing has made us, they would change. Lamb is different from mutton. That is such a childish "war" habit. It is time to get beyond those times. Thanks to films like this one and Carbon Cowboys who produced Dirt So Deep, perhaps we can help all.
Here in New Zealand the only sheep worth their weight in wool are the Merino Sheep whose wool is sold to the Major Italian Woolen Mills for Bespoke Men's suits and Cardigans and to the Icebreaker Clothing Company with one sheep station alone having 30,000 merino's on a 100,000 acres sheep station
I do have about 20 Australian Merino fleeces, which I am slowly hand processing into yarn for myself. Wool and other natural fibers are so much healthier to wear. We have 2 Icebreaker stores in our area, and I love wearing their products. Don't forget Polworth fleece. It is a very nice wool which oft times I prefer to knit over Merino. The Longwool breeds really do a better job of holding stitch definition. Wear more wool! Or other natural fibers.
Love wool socks and love sheep I don’t personally eat them
I’d love to see more wool garments in the us.
All the lamb in the store is imported. Its a shame.
do you know why do we eat lamb instead of full grown sheep?
@brandonyi2547
Lamb, especially wool breeds is milder in flavor. Hair sheep breeds are milder in flavor overall.
@@brandonyi2547the Ewes need held back in order to continue future seasonal lamb crop.
@kristinbryant6669 There are people who love the flavor of the Border Leicester sheep breed for great tasting lamb. I have found a local source for Romney lamb. Buy local if you can, or find lamb from the US online. Meat can ship just about everywhere.
@@brandonyi2547Lambs are slaughtered at less than a year old. The meat is mild flavored and tender. Mutton (adult sheep) is strong flavored and tougher (best used as stew or cooked until it falls apart).
There is something wrong in the global economic order. If the US wants to retain the dominance of the dollar it should implement the following:
1. NEVER allow the manufacturing of appliances and heavy equipment to get out of the US mainland.
2. Factory and farm workers could include migrants on work visas. This would generate huge income for the corporations which...
3. ...should be taxed more.
4. Taxes from global corporations should be used to finance loans in the migrants' countries of origin to industrialize GreenTech food production, power generation, roads and housing infrastructure to improve the standards of living of the migrants workers. Further investments could be in the production and processing of new industrial materials like bamboo textiles, engineered lumber, activated carbon, livestock feed, etc. as items in fair trade deals.
5. Remaining taxes should be spent on welfare, housing and student loans for US citizens.
Supply outpaces demand, that’s the real problem. Econ 101
US ranchers are NOT oversupplying our domestic markets with either wool or lamb. We are competing against cheap foreign imports that are produced in a manner that is not allowed here. Please do not trivialize problems that huge swathes of agriculture are enduring with your flippant attitude.
@ prices are always determined by supply and demand. Take an economics class. Imports also contribute to supply.
Have you not watched the video? Wool is being imported
@@jaceStenberg yeah that also contributes to supply
@dhand34 It is time to raise awareness about the true cost of synthetic clothing. Even some knitters did not know that acrylic yarn came from oil. I would rather conserve oil for better use and wear natural fibers like wool. That is much healthier. Plus, demand would be raised to a realistic level where sheep ranchers could thrive. Using oil for clothing is creating a false sense of source security. You have noticed the cost of gasoline has risen over the past 50 years?
A 2 thousand plus years old occupation on the brink .....and Jesus wept 🙏
Native Americans had animals to domesticate and they didn't. They had bighorn sheep, dall sheep, musk ox and bison. Sheep herding (without ranches) enabled the large empires on the Eurasian continent in the cold steppes.
They don't have horses yet
Check the Navajo Nation. The US government killed 1 million Navajo sheep because it was believed they overgrazed. It's funny how plowing up the Prairies causing the Dust Bowl did not stop the wheat and corn farmers from further degrading our Nation's best soil. Navajo wool is not particularly great for wearing next to the skin (except for lambswool) but fantastic for beautiful Navajo rugs that are sold each year at ANE auction.
Won't be around for long with all the wolves they keep releasing into sheep country.
What an ignorant comment. This isn’t the 1700s. There will always be plenty of sheep. Wolves are keeping the deer and other pests in check.
More wolves, bears, coyotes, cougars, bobcats, even eagles. Fewer animals on range, more chicken, wolves don't eat chicken!