A Tibetan herder shears a sheep in Gerze county, Xizang autonomous region. SONAM RINCHEN/FOR CHINA DAILY In the picturesque grasslands of Gerze county in Ngari prefecture of the Xizang autonomous ...

The government and industry have announced a joint $75,000 fund to support welfare training for shearers, but advocates say ...

“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 ...

Australia will shear its smallest number of sheep in more than 120 years with predictions the numbers will slip below 60 ...

This is not your average beauty school. Your clients can be pretty cranky. Sometimes they’ll even walk out mid-haircut. And you have to hold them down -- with only your legs -- while wielding an ...

Following is a transcription of the video: Narrator: Here in the New Zealand countryside, 25,000 sheep are sheared in just 10 days. Tom O'Sullivan: It's a nightmare trying to keep the sheep still.

Over 20,000 people are expected to descend on Mountbellew Mart in Co Galway over the weekend, as this year's All-Ireland and All-Nations Sheep Shearing Championships kicked off. Competitors from New ...

LESTER, Iowa — "Sheep shearers are in short supply in Australia just like here," says Alex Moser. Shearing is work that Moser enjoys, so a sheep shearing trip seemed like a good idea. His seven-week ...

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 ...

FARGO - Shepherds have some simple ways to capitalize on one of the best lamb and wool markets the American sheep industry has seen. One of them is shearing sheep. It can have tremendous impacts on ...