At daybreak on a freezing cold day high in the Andes, dozens of Peruvian peasants clamber up a mountainside to carry out a centuries-old tradition of shearing the highly-prized wool off vicunas, which ...

The farmer-owned national wool marketing organisation, Primary Wool Cooperative Ltd, has become the major sponsor of shearing scoring in New Zealand. The company is sponsoring the locally-developed ...

A dedicated $75,000 fund has been established to support targeted training programmes that improve knowledge, skills, and ...

The Government and industry are supporting training initiatives to improve animal welfare outcomes in New Zealand woolsheds, ...

Australia will shear its smallest number of sheep in more than 120 years with predictions the numbers will slip below 60 million.

The first day of shearing is always an exciting if busy time, as local shearers sharpen their combs, kelpies bark and bleating sheep with their lustrous wool fleeces pack the lanolin-stained wooden ...

Flipping burgers, making coffees and clocking up hours in retail are typical ways university students earn money while studying. But medical science student Sam Furler has seen what he thinks is a ...

Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ancestral "chaccu" shearing - Copyright AFP Lillian SUWANRUMPHA Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ...