SHEFFIELD, Texas — For the past 80 years, four generations of Allisons have overseen the spring shearing at their 35,000-acre ranch among the rocky arroyos of Terrell County, 140 miles southwest of ...

Jake, the sheep shearing crew boss, called me on Saturday evening, hoping to arrive at my barn on Monday morning. I already had a big day of commitments on Monday so we settled on Tuesday morning ...

Mireille Kroeker and Chris Bevan live in the tiny, mostly empty village of Horod — approximately 120 kilometres north of Brandon near Riding Mountain National Park — where they have a small farm with ...

JAMESTOWN, R.I. -- People looking to enjoy a spring day headed over the Jamestown-Verrazzano Bridge Saturday to Conanicut Island and one of its pastoral attractions to witness an annual farm ritual — ...

SPOTSYLVANIA — Shearing sheep has been an annual rite of spring for most of Richard Beasley’s life. The Spotsylvania County farmer has taken care of his own herd and even done the backbreaking duty ...

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 ...

GOODE — On a chilly, damp Sunday, alpacas at A Goode View Alpaca Farm parted ways with their warm, thick fleece. When Goldmine, the first alpaca to undergo her annual shearing, was led out of the barn ...

Results from the 50th Waimate Shears and New Zealand Spring Shearing and Woolhandling Championships at Waimate on October 13-14, 2017: International: Transtasman Blade Shearing Test (4 sheep): New ...