Wednesday, December 4, 2024
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Lately, the early morning and late night flock checks and bottle feedings have been a pleasure for Eliza Blue.

Having bottle lambs means getting up early and going to bed late. But Eliza Blue is still captivated by the labor-intensive process.

Eliza Blue is reminded that dealing with livestock and weather are two entities only a fool would claim mastery over.

Every winter around this time, baby lambs begin prancing through Eliza Blue's dreams — no matter how exhausted she was during the previous lambing season.

Eliza Blue adopts four orphaned lambs on top of the ones bred on her farm, making it an interesting, hectic and still-manageable lambing season.

Aaron and Tara Helmick's dairy made sense financially, but it was burning them out. Sheep have given them a new lease on life.

The sheep industry is going through a revival of sorts. Prices for lambs and ewes hit record highs in 2021, following a year of solid growth in 2020. People consumed more lamb last year than they have in two decades. 

Consumer demand for lamb increased considerably during 2020 as lamb sales grew at a larger percentage than total meat sales overall.

Buzz Foods will expand current operations to include a top-of-the-line livestock slaughter and processing facility.

The seasonal supply of lamb is inconsistent, which leads to market price volatility, and consequences for carcass size and/or quality.