At daybreak on a freezing cold day high in the Andes, dozens of Peruvian peasants clamber up a mountainside to carry out a centuries-old tradition of shearing the highly-prized wool off vicunas, which ...

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

The farmer-owned national wool marketing organisation, Primary Wool Cooperative Ltd, has become the major sponsor of shearing scoring in New Zealand. The company is sponsoring the locally-developed ...

Throughout the Yass Valley wool is coming off the sheep's backs at a record rate. April is one of the busiest months for shearing, and with a wool price that hasn't been seen for more than two decades ...

The first day of shearing is always an exciting if busy time, as local shearers sharpen their combs, kelpies bark and bleating sheep with their lustrous wool fleeces pack the lanolin-stained wooden ...

Flipping burgers, making coffees and clocking up hours in retail are typical ways university students earn money while studying. But medical science student Sam Furler has seen what he thinks is a ...

The Government and industry are supporting training initiatives to improve animal welfare outcomes in New Zealand woolsheds, Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard and Rural Communities ...

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

Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ancestral "chaccu" shearing - Copyright AFP Lillian SUWANRUMPHA Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ...