Jake, the sheep shearing crew boss, called me on Saturday evening, hoping to arrive at my barn on Monday morning. I already had a big day of commitments on Monday so we settled on Tuesday morning ...

Southern Field Days organisers expect a full field of top professional shearers for the Speed Shearing event at Waimumu, a ...

BROWNSVILLE, Ore. — Sheep shearing, according to veteran shearer Mike Cowdrey, isn’t for everybody. “It’s the kind of job that you either like doing or you want nothing to do with it,” he said. The ...

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 ...

GILLETTE – A group of about 25 people gathered in an old, dusty barn last weekend. Some sat at a table, some on a beam along the wall. Others sat on bales of fleece nearby. Young and old, they ate ...

As the sun rises over a feedlot in a northern corner of San Angelo on a late September morning; a large group of sheep, heavy with overgrown layers of wool, kicks up clouds of dust as they nervously ...

SHEFFIELD, Texas — For the past 80 years, four generations of Allisons have overseen the spring shearing at their 35,000-acre ranch among the rocky arroyos of Terrell County, 140 miles southwest of ...

MANKATO — Joe Domeier vividly remembers the first time he sheared a sheep over 15 years ago, and it wasn’t pretty. “The very first sheep I sheared was my own and it was just brutal,” Domeier laughed. ...

A West Australian worker is believed to have smashed the country’s quick sheep shearing record. Ethan Harder competed in the Hamish Wills Memorial Quick Shear in Casuarina at the weekend, shearing a ...