Facing incredible demand, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension shared the art of sheep shearing with a sold-out class Wednesday and Thursday. University extension specialists taught more than 20 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thousands of baaing sheep shift in nervous eddies around a small, open trailer where the snicking sounds of hundreds of metal teeth signal it’s haircut time ...

Lake Metroparks’ second annual Lamb Jam event kicked off on April 27, providing visitors with an opportunity to learn more about sheep and the wool they produce. Farmpark staff members showed visitors ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A sheep shearing demonstration was held in the Ames Activity Pavilion at the National Western Stock Show on January 22, 2020. Bob Schroth, who runs annual ...

BAG: Shearing day last year yielded 25 bags of good-quality wool for batting and roving and 10 bags of poor-quality wool (mostly from old sheep) for recycling as garden mulch. CLEAN: The best wool is ...

A heated debate has erupted online over whether sheep shearing is ethical or exploitative. Alaina Wood (@itsthegarbagequeen), whose bio says she’s a sustainability scientist and climate activist, took ...

In a 2000 study, researchers at the University of Southern Australia found that by every measurement taken, from sustained heart rate to oxygen consumption to calories burned, sheep shearing was ...

FORT RANSOM, N.D. — A large Romney sheep makes its way out of the chute and on to the shearing station, waiting for the sheep shearer to get started on its overgrown coat. As the shearer picks up the ...

A broken jaw playing country rugby league led farmer Ross Thompson to get serious about shearing sheep in the northern New South Wales town of Inverell. It was the 1990s when some 10,000 shearers ...