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 ...

As the sun rises over a feedlot in a northern corner of San Angelo on a late September morning; a large group of sheep, heavy with overgrown layers of wool, kicks up clouds of dust as they nervously ...

SAN ANGELO — Experienced sheep shearers striving to improve their skills and enhance their teaching capabilities attended an educational event at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center ...

It took Hilary Gietzen about 45 minutes to shear one sheep when he first started shearing 32 years ago. Now the 47-year-old can shear a sheep in 80 seconds during competitions. Gietzen recently placed ...

HOLLAND, MI — Beads of sweat cling to Timothy Wright’s hairline. The shearer from Byron Center delivers blow after blow after blow with his clippers. Then, he sets his challenger free and returns to ...

USINGEN, Germany (AP) — It’s time for the sheep in Germany's Taunus Mountains to get their summer look, and the shearers are making quick work of relieving the 1,000 or so in Volker Schuhmacher’s ...

It's an appointment we generally arrange when we require a cut and not by observing what the specific season happens to be. But when a sheep gets a trim, the calendar on the wall very often shows the ...

Will Kleinert’s mobile sheep-shearing barn brings this service directly to fellow farmers. Will Kleinert of Askome, IL comes from a long line of farmers. Since starting in 2015 with his grandfather’s ...

MANKATO — Joe Domeier vividly remembers the first time he sheared a sheep over 15 years ago, and it wasn’t pretty. “The very first sheep I sheared was my own and it was just brutal,” Domeier laughed. ...