A Victorian merino stud has bred its first line of footrot-resistant rams in a major step forward against a disease that ...

Earlier this year, while the Rafter 7 Merino flock peacefully grazed in a feedlot at the Fish Creek Ranch, just 12 miles south of Eureka, a coyote stealthily approached the unsuspecting flock, ...

Merino wool has long been considered the gold standard of base layers. It comes from the fleece of merino sheep, a group of breeds originating in Spain in the Middle Ages. For centuries, Spain kept a ...

Carol and John Steitz of Steitzhof Merinos on Friday, Sept. 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Merino sheep at Steitzhof Merinos on Friday, Sept. 23. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake) Merino ...

Kim Harrison raises the merino sheep for their wool, which she uses to weave cloth and make into clothing items at Ruxville Farm. ALEXA WELCH EDLUND/TIMES-DISPATCH This is one of the newborn lambs ...