It is not every day that you see sitting members of Congress carrying a shepherd’s staff.

But at a warehouse in Tooele County on Thursday, Reps. Celeste Maloy and Burgess Owens from Utah’s delegation were brandishing them proudly.

“We want to make farming great again,” Owens said. “This is the culture that defines our country.”

The two GOP members organized an event at the Utah Wool Growers Association’s warehouse, where stacks upon stacks of wool simply sit. Some of it has been sitting there since 2017.

It has nowhere to go, because the U.S. demand has been undercut drastically by Australia and New Zealand.

Like many industries across the United States, agriculture has been relegated to other countries to control. U.S. wool has to be shipped to New Zealand to be tested and then retur

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