Feb 9 (Reuters) - The World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships kicked off in New Zealand on Wednesday with hundreds of competitors from around the world. Held for the first time on the country's ...

Loren Opstedahl of Piedmont demonstrates how to shear a sheep using hand shears, which are called blades, during the sheep shearing championships at Rushmore Hall on Sunday at the Black Hills Stock ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since starting in 2015 with his grandfather’s help, he’s grown quality hay while pursuing his true passion—sheep shearing. After shearing school, he honed his craft and now runs a mobile shearing barn ...

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 on ...

One look around the ring and you know this isn't the cattle crowd. Polished buckles, boots and spurs? Make way for dirty moccasins and oily shears. If it weren't for the pen teaming with fluffy, brown ...