Two World shearing record attempts are set to be shorn in New Zealand next month, both in the heat of an inland Otago summer.

“Shearless Fleece,” it read next to a picture of a sheep heavy with wool. “Not a single sheep was sheared in the making of this garment.” The sixth-generation sheep farmer in Monkton, Ontario, logged ...

A sheep named Baarack received a much needed shearing after rescuers in Australia found the abandoned animal with more than 75 pounds of wool weighing it down. Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary, an ...

In some of the thatched granaries, sacks of shear remain stuffed, thanks to bad roads and lack of ready markets. Many farmers, here, had resorted to rearing sheep for wool to earn income, but poor ...

The world record for the most Merino lambs shorn in eight hours by a team of five is now held by the Riverina Shearing Gang including Australians Lochie Robertson, Toby Walker and Nick Lehmann ...

Among the kangaroos and kookaburras, another creature trundled through the Australian bush. Hooves barely visible, eyes mostly covered, the animal was the size of a refrigerator, the color of dirty ...

His rams come from 1000km away and so does his classer. But it’s the length of the wool — and how quickly his sheep can grow it — that drives the business, run on a number of properties on the Eyre ...

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