FORT RANSOM, N.D. — A large Romney sheep makes its way out of the chute and on to the shearing station, waiting for the sheep shearer to get started on its overgrown coat. As the shearer picks up the ...

One farmer’s practice of burning the wool shaved off her sheep has churned up “shear” madness, as media outlets like the BBC have reported she did so to protest ultra-low wool prices paid out to ...

Following is a transcription of the video: Narrator: Here in the New Zealand countryside, 25,000 sheep are sheared in just 10 days. Tom O'Sullivan: It's a nightmare trying to keep the sheep still.

The sheep that was found in an Australian forest was carrying around 77 pounds of wool after not being shorn for a long time. Kyle Behrend, of Edgar’s Mission Farm Sanctuary, said it appears that ...

After being sheared from the sheep, the freshly-shorn fleece was tossed high in the air over a wool table. Several people were on hand to handle the wool and take out any contaminants, called skirting ...

About 10 years ago, Trafford resident and knitting enthusiast Liza Jennings Seiner began to wonder: where does yarn come from? “I’ve been a knitter since I was a kid, and it just never occurred to me, ...

(CNN) — An Australian champion sheep shearer has set a new record after clipping a sheep that had become so overgrown its life was endangered. The gigantic sheep, named Chris, could barely walk when ...

GREENWICH — Fulton County sheep farmer Rick Argotsinger got up early Friday and drove through Saratoga Springs on his way to Greenwich to deliver 1,200 pounds of wool headed to a South Carolina mill ...

(KUTV) -- Utah wool producers have something important to say to PETA in response to its sheep billboard in Salt Lake City. "First thing that's important to understand about shearing is it's cruel and ...

BAG: Shearing day last year yielded 25 bags of good-quality wool for batting and roving and 10 bags of poor-quality wool (mostly from old sheep) for recycling as garden mulch. CLEAN: The best wool is ...

MANKATO — Joe Domeier vividly remembers the first time he sheared a sheep over 15 years ago, and it wasn’t pretty. “The very first sheep I sheared was my own and it was just brutal,” Domeier laughed. ...