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 ...

Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...

JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- People looking to enjoy a spring day headed over the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge Saturday to Conanicut Island and one of its pastoral attractions to witness an annual farm ritual — ...

The dozen or so people gathered for shearing day at By the Bay Alpacas farm greeted the arrival of alpaca shearing expert Jay Mariacher on Thursday with a cheer. The Pungoteague, Virginia, farm, owned ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On a sunny spring day in early March, thousands of Western Slope sheep line up in a corral unknowingly waiting for their annual haircut. Herders gently prod ...

Mireille Kroeker and Chris Bevan live in the tiny, mostly empty village of Horod — approximately 120 kilometres north of Brandon near Riding Mountain National Park — where they have a small farm with ...

Spring shearing is now underway and woolgrowers are scrambling to secure shearers and shed staff as COVID-19 border closures and travel restrictions plague the industry. Riverina wool grower Grant ...