MILES CITY, Mont. - Mike Schuldt has been shearing sheep for 28 years, and a grant through the Growth Through Agriculture program last November made his vision of a mobile sheep shearing operation a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Thousands of baaing sheep shift in nervous eddies around a small, open trailer where the snicking sounds of hundreds of metal teeth signal it’s haircut time ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sheep farmers have been reminded that biosecurity during shearing season must be paramount to minimise disease risk to the flock, but also to protect shearers. The National Sheep Association (NSA) and ...