Ranch Insight: Sheep Industry Takeaways for Beef Producers

About this episode

The episode discusses lessons the beef industry can learn from the sheep industry's rise and decline.

What can the beef industry learn from the rise and decline of the sheep industry? In this final episode of the Rural Resilience webinar series, we are bringing you a replay of a live conversation with Brent Roeder, Montana State University Extension sheep specialist. Brent has spent his career in the sheep business, and in this talk he shares hard-earned lessons from decades of change, including global competition, shifting consumer demand, labor challenges, technology, and industry structure...

People in this episode

Guest: Brent Roeder

Topics covered

• beef industry
• sheep industry
• consumer demand
• labor challenges
• technology
• industry structure

Keywords

• beef producers
• sheep industry
• global competition
• consumer demand
• labor challenges
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Montana State University Extension

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