Shepherd’s Cross, an Animal Welfare-approved working sheep farm, is announcing the return of its annual sheep-shearing school.

The Museum of Appalachia, a Smithsonian Affiliate, welcomes students and families to celebrate the arrival of spring and the ...

The UK's sheep industry has warned of a potential sheep shearing "crisis" as a lack of overseas shearers could see 1.5 ...

YAPHANK, New York -- When Tabbethia Haubold isn't on the road professionally shearing animals from Vermont to Georgia, she runs her 17-acre yarn and fiber farm in Yaphank. Long Island's Yarn & Farm ...

Guy Frazier doesn't remember the first time he successfully sheared a sheep. "That's kind of like, how old were you when you picked up your first hay bale," he said. "I don't remember that, either." ...

COPPER HILL -- While most of his college peers are spending their weekends at parties and ballgames, Floyd County native and Virginia Tech agriculture student Derrick Spangler is spending his time on ...

A VISA concession for Australian and New Zealand shearers working the United Kingdom has been extended for the 2026 shearing season, the UK’s Minister for Migration & Citizenship Mike Tapp has ...

Shadow farming minister Robbie Moore has heralded a Government decision to allow a concessionary visa scheme for sheep shearers to continue for a year, to avert an animal welfare crisis.

CHAZY — Josh and Rebekah Pierce, of J & R Family Farm, have been raising more than 70 sheep which, through a combined effort between Kendall Sustainable Infrastructure, Greenspark Solar and the George ...