Sheep are one of the few animals that are bred to obtain not only meat and milk, but also wool. As a livestock industry, sheep breeding ranks third in the world. According to the latest data, the ...

A Gillette couple enjoys raising alpacas, a challenging line of work given their stubbornness and tendency to spit, kick and ...

The use of the most adapted, highly productive, and economically profitable sheep genotypes in breeding strategies to improve their meat and wool qualities in relation to specific economic conditions ...

There will be talks and demonstrations about how to look after sheep, together with a sheep shearing demonstration, the chance to find out more about the shire horses that live in the fields ...

WEAKNESS in the Merino fleece market – especially the 18-19.5 micron range – has contributed to a small overall loss across Australian auction this week. The Australian Wool Exchange said with no ...

The competition featured six students in the shearing final, and six students in the woolhandling final. Many of the school's students are involved in agriculture and were able to safely and ...

“Sadly, the price of wool is extremely low in the UK and it costs more to shear the sheep than you get from selling the wool.” From Bronze Age times, people have used a variety of natural ...

Welsh shearer Richard Jones was crowned European machine sheep shearing champion at last weekend’s European Sheep Shearing and Wool Handling Championships held in Mountbellew Co-operative mart in Co ...

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the First Australians and Traditional Custodians of the lands where we live, learn and work.

May 28—The Town of Estes Park invites the community to come together for some fun with fur at the Town's 34th annual Wool Market ... demonstrating sheep shearing and fiber arts, where guests ...

After four days of preparation, each of the 35 alpacas go through the shearing process, allowing several pounds of fleece to be sheared right off The alpacas can rest easy during the hot summer ...