Onslow looked relaxed and comfortable while lying on his back on a platform Thursday inside Kahua Ranch’s shearing shed. The 8-year-old Romney ram, weighing more than 200 pounds, looked like he was in ...

JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- People looking to enjoy a spring day headed over the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge Saturday to Conanicut Island and one of its pastoral attractions to witness an annual farm ritual — ...

A number of shearing schools are now open for registration with start dates ranging from this fall to spring of 2022. In anticipation of shearing season, the American Sheep Industry Association has a ...

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 ...

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 ...

HUTCHINSON, Minn. — The Rathke family will once again host their Minnesota Sheep Shearing School April 24-26 at their Liberty, Land and Livestock Farm west of Hutchinson. The three-day course taught ...

MIDDLEBORO -- After seeing the degree of physical labor and the fast reactions shearing a sheep requires, the fact that Andy Rice still does this work for eight or more hours a day at age 72 is ...

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 ...

Taking sheep's wool and turning it into something you can wear is an age-old practice, but Heritage N.L. and the Sheep Producers Association of N.L. are introducing the process to a new generation.

If you are interested in learning more about sheep shearing or the science of wool and how to handle it, then plan to attend the North Dakota Sheep Shearing School on Nov. 13-15 or the Wool Science ...

SAN ANGELO – Texas A&M AgriLife will conduct two wool production educational schools Jan. 3-5 at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center north of San Angelo on U.S. Highway 87. “We are ...