AUSTRALIA’S top wool handler, Queenslander Alex Schoff, had a plan for the trans-Tasman test at the national shearing and ...

A new world record for sheep shearing has been set in southern New South Wales by a team of five shearers who clipped on ...

Dobbs, from Fairlie, and Mackay, of Culverden, extended the black-singlet dominance in the annual home-and-away blade shearing tests by beating Australian pair Johnathon Dalla and Andrew Murray, by ...

What makes a dream job? The chance to travel the world? A workplace in the great outdoors as opposed to a stuffy office? Honing a skill to a competition-worthy level? Sounds pretty good – which is why ...

Katie McRose, the founder of the traveling animal shearing business Right Choice Shearing, remembers the first time she posted a TikTok video showing off her work. It was back in March of this year, ...

Feedback mentions the Ig Nobel prize awarded for an Australian paper on the best surface for dragging sheep to be sheared (11 October). Sheep are dragged on their rumps, not with a rope round their ...

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 the animals to follow one another up a ramp ...

USINGEN, Germany (AP) — It’s time for the sheep in Germany's Taunus Mountains to get their summer look, and the shearers are making quick work of relieving the 1,000 or so in Volker Schuhmacher’s ...