Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...

HIGHLAND COUNTY – As the winter turns to spring, thousands of Virginia wool sheep will get their annual “haircut." Sheep shearing, or the process of harvesting wool, is a centuries-old practice that ...

TWO Welshman have set a new record by hand shearing 397 sheep over the course of nine hours. The pair, Gareth Pennant Owen and Clive Hamer, managed to shear an average of 44 sheep per hour, over a ...

UC Cooperative Extension and the National Sheep Shearing Program will offer two sheep-shearing school sessions this spring at a UC research Center in Hopland. The first session will be from April 29 ...

If you are interest in learning more about sheep shearing or the science of wool and how to handle it, plan to attend the North Dakota Sheep Shearing School on Nov. 13-15 at North Dakota State ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- And now, after the opening hour of the Spring Farm Days at Burritt on the Mountain, it is time to shear a sheep. There is, of course, more than one way to shear a sheep, as ...

What makes a dream job? The chance to travel the world? A workplace in the great outdoors as opposed to a stuffy office? Honing a skill to a competition-worthy level? Sounds pretty good – which is why ...

LAVINA -- The sheep were coming fast into the shearing wagon, as fast as the five cutters inside could wrestle each 140-pound animal onto its back for a close shave. At the front of the line, Ralph ...