Starting the four-stand Women’s 8 hour strong wool lamb record attempt at 7.30am on a cold morning at “Melrose Station’, near Owaka, and set to end at 5.30pm, the four had shorn 1446 by the ...

Victorian wool growers may face a 2-6 cents a head increase, the shearing industry says, as a result of industry-wide ...

Simon Goss completed the remarkable feat of shearing 732 strong wool ewes and pipped the previous record holder Matt Smith by ...

In rural Oregon, farmers are leveraging technology to sell their products to a mostly urban clientele. Fifth-generation sheep shearer Jacob Valentine, proprietor of Darkside Shearing in Crabtree, OR, ...

Woolgrowers and shearing contractors are being warned that they are falling afoul of one state's labour hire laws and that ...

The high-stakes events take place Friday and Saturday, with the Northern Southland Community Shears held on Friday at ...

The Australian wool industry is plagued with stories of drug taking and animal abuse in shearing sheds while wool producers are battling negative publicity and blowback from overseas markets.

For Maree Smith and her family, shearing is in the blood. The work is tough, physical and taxing on the body, but it is a lifestyle the family proudly embraces. In an arena once dominated by men, ...