Shearer Jim Barnett drinks coffee while sitting on a filled bag of wool on March 9 in Mitchell. Shearing a flock of sheep tends to be an all-day event and takes place normally around the Spring ...

The opportunity was made possible thanks to a partnership between Davie County High School's 4H program and the Cognition ...

WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) -- A hundred years ago, most sheep shearers relied on scissor-like blades to cut the wool off of sheep, before motorized clippers took over as the primary method.

FARGO - Shepherds have some simple ways to capitalize on one of the best lamb and wool markets the American sheep industry has seen. One of them is shearing sheep. It can have tremendous impacts ...

The sixth-generation sheep farmer in Monkton, Ontario, logged on to his farm’s Facebook page to lash out at Lucky. Not only is shearing not inhumane, he wrote, it helps sheep fend off disease ...

Shearing has marked a seasonal passage on Colorado’s farms and ranches as long as there have been sheep here. But it’s getting to be a bigger headache for the state’s 1,600 lamb and wool ...

He had some help, fortunately, and it ultimately took five shearers 40 minutes to wipe out all of that wool. And in the end, Chris set a world record for the most wool to be removed from a sheep ...

One by one, the sheep were led into the barn at Ralph and Carol Adamson’s farm — some more reluctantly than others, but all sporting a year’s worth of accumulated wool. And just as surely, their ...

The Strasburg sheep farmer, who runs annual shearing demonstrations at the stock show, can sheer a sheep in about 3 minutes. The shorn wool is sold to a wool buyer then sold to a mill.

Her husband, Tom Cory, started raising sheep in the early 1960s — wool was an asset back then. “I was able to get enough money from that wool that I could pay for their winter feed.