Sheep as a competitive livestock enterprise in Missouri
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"The ancestors of the present-day domestic sheep in the U.S.A, were imported. Domestic sheep were introduced in North America at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century by Spaniards. At the beginning of the 17th century the first sheep of British breeds were introduced in Virginia. Sheep numbers have fluctuated rather widely from time to time. The sheep stock peaked in the 1880's with almost 46 million head, and peaked again during World War II with 56 million head. Immediately after WWII, the sheep stock sharply declined by one half, and the 25 million head in inventory at the time increased very slowly until the 1960's, when the inventory decreased to 21 million, the lowest since the records began in 1867. Since then, the sheep stock numbers continued to decline, except during a short recess in the late 70's, to the present number of all sheep and lambs on farms as of January 1986, of 9,932,000."--Introduction.
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