That’s the situation facing farmers who are voting with their chequebooks by paying a premium for these new self-shedding ...

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Quentin Whitehead, a Gore farmer and patriarch of a ...

O'Sullivan: But a good shearer can shear a sheep in a minute and the sheep won't even wriggle. It will just sit there. Narrator: This wool normally would be cleaned, dyed, woven, and sold across ...

Meant for meat production, ‘Nudies’ are a breed of sheep that don’t grow wool, allowing farmers to save on costs.

Sheep shearing demonstration organised in Ballinrobe, County Mayo, to help the standard of sheep shearing in Ireland. Report shows sheep being sheared. Interview with Scots man Tom Wilson the ...

The statue features an illustration drawn by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss that depicts several sheep holding signs that protest shearing and wool products. “PETA’s ‘E(n)d Shearin ...

NEW Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries could prosecute and disqualify individuals from working with animals following its investigations into PETA claims of sheep mistreatment during ...

THREE open final wins in three days have added a remarkable chapter to Wairarapa shearer David Buick’s recovery from ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A sheep shearing school will be held Feb. 22 at Purdue University’s Sheep Center from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Australia is no longer riding on the sheep’s back, as producers turn away from the once-proud enterprise en masse.

Without dry weather needed to cut wool, animals could become more susceptible ... "It costs around £1.30 to shear each sheep, and we get about 40 pence per fleece, so it's not really done for ...