West Australian farmer Peter Reid has ridden the highs and lows of the wool industry for his entire working life and knows ...

The industry that once carried the fortunes of regional Australia on its back is in the midst of a ­“profitability crisis”, ...

NEW Zealand shearer Jack Fagan has picked up world shearing’s richest cash prize in a lightning trans-Tasman trip to win the ...

"Shearing is becoming a dying art; more and more farmers are getting out of sheep," she said. "I hope that my record can give some publicity to Australian wool, in particular merino, and hopefully ...

According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine ...

Australian wool production is forecast to drop to its lowest level in 100 years, but these young farmers remain optimistic ...

A South Australian sheep shearer and father-of ... Picture: Supplied by family The pair took their sheep shearing business, Arno Bay Shearing, on the road full time in May last year.

Australia was still a British colony at this point, and the discovery of gold in 1851 brought many more immigrants to find their fortune. Before mechanisation, sheep shearing was done by hand ...

Farmers in south-west England are struggling to shear sheep because of unseasonal amounts of rain The lack of shearing can have welfare issues, they say Fleeces sheared previously have also been ...