Congratulations have been pouring on the Falkland Islands Team at the recent 2026 World Shearing and Wool-handling Championships, Golden Shears, at Masterton, New Zealand, following the outstanding ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. -Credit:Reach Publishing Services Limited (Reach Publishing Services Limited) Thornhill farmer Hamish Mitchell is a busy man, ...

The Country: Jamie Mackay catches up with Kiwi shearing legend (and warm favourite for the World title), John Kirkpatrick to hear how he's finding the World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships.

Doug Rathke of Hutchinson was one of two people who represented the United States in blade shearing at the World Sheep Shearing Competition, July 4-7, in Le Dorat, France. The USA Blade Team placed ...

A New Zealand farm lobby group says sheep shearing has the potential to become an Olympic demonstration sport. Just don't count on seeing it at London next summer or Rio in 2016. The ''time has come ...

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

Thornhill farmer Hamish Mitchell is a busy man, juggling domestic duties in the fields with a sheep shearing career which has taken him all over the world. The 56-year-old is a legendary figure in the ...