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, ...

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, ...

Q:At my workplace, we have an outdoor patio with six non-fruiting pear trees surrounded by a hedge of rosemary. Our "gardening" company comes several times a year to prune the trees and the hedges.

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

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

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

Didling Farm’s flock manager, Matt Blyth, has seen a marked improvement in lamb weights and survival since he started shearing ewes before lambing five years ago. The indoor lambing flock of 1,050 ...