Due to a spike in global mutton prices over the past decade and for want of a sheep variety that can thrive on freezing plateaus, many herders in Gansu province began crossbreeding a local sheep ...

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.

At a family farm in central Iowa, a sheep shearer leans over a ram, making smooth, clean strokes through several inches of shaggy wool. For most breeds, this fiber will just keep growing unless it’s ...

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A farmer’s novel idea to help deter pests from eating allotment vegetables could help kickstart a revolution in the Welsh wine industry. Wool fleeces are being put down on grapevines at one north ...

Until now, Rambouillet sheep raised in the Rocky Mountain West have been the stars of the American-made wool movement. But they’re facing new competition from the American bison. Philadelphia-based ...

It’s found in lip care, ointments, and specialty creams–but what exactly is lanolin? Few people know that this popular ...

A sheepdog rounds up sheep before they are taken to shearing in Usingen near Frankfurt, Germany, Saturday, May 29, 2021. AP USINGEN, Germany — It’s time for the sheep in Germany’s Taunus Mountains to ...

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