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Lamb Producers Seek New Recruits


To all those cattlemen and hog farmers who have bled money in past years, Canada's lamb growers have a proposition: Come join the shepherds.

Riding a demographic wave that has increased demand for their product and kept prices high, Canadian sheep producers have set out on a campaign to woo farmers into their fold.

At a time when pork producers reported a $1-billion loss last year, and the Canadian cattle herd has shrunk to a size not seen since 1994, sheep farmers are actively working to make larger an industry so small it supplies less than half of Canada's lamb diet.

“There is plenty of current and future market for everyone,” said Margaret Cook, the executive director of the Alberta Lamb Producers, in a statement Monday. “There is greater risk in continuing to force retailers and consumers to buy import lamb than in having higher production levels of lamb from more local producers.”

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