Over 20,000 people are expected to descend on Mountbellew Mart in Co Galway over the weekend, as this year's All-Ireland and All-Nations Sheep Shearing Championships kicked off. Competitors from New ...

A broken jaw playing country rugby league led farmer Ross Thompson to get serious about shearing sheep in the northern New South Wales town of Inverell. It was the 1990s when some 10,000 shearers ...

Facing incredible demand, Lincoln University Cooperative Extension shared the art of sheep shearing with a sold-out class Wednesday and Thursday. University extension specialists taught more than 20 ...

KERRY'S top sheep shearers are going for gold in this year's Sheep and Wool Festival in Kilkenny, a two day international event which incorporates the All Ireland and International Sheep Shearing and ...

Students from a class on modern sheep farming gathered in a facility on Dal's Truro Campus in early April to assist in clipping the campus flock. The shearing of ewes and rams resulted in 750 pounds ...