The call went out for experts to tackle the massive merino's woolly exterior, and the country's sheep shearing champion Ian Elkins stepped forward, clippers in hand.

It’s an eight-person team event. One person hand shears the sheep while the other seven start spinning the greasy wool right off the sheep. It ends up being four people knitting.

The Ohio State University departments of Animal Sciences and Extension are pleased to announce the dates of the 2025 Fall ...

Sheep shearing has become global, and it's all very exciting. It's just like rock and roll, really, only without the music.

LAVINA -- The sheep were coming fast into the shearing wagon, as fast as the five cutters inside could wrestle each 140-pound animal onto its back for a close shave.

Joe Domeier, a professional sheep shearer who raises the animals on his farm near Nicollet, had a mostly cooperative model to shear as part of the Children’s Museum’s outdoor demonstration Sunday.

Shear industry in South Dakota: A career of shearing and selling wool Cup of coffee in hand, Jim Barnett takes a break from shearing Brian Iburg's sheep. They seem unaware of the change, however ...

Five years later, Monica’s mother, Amy, helped the now-13-year-old shear a fine-wool Columbia sheep named Kennely on Saturday, preparing the animal for today’s show.

Livestock research specialist Ann Petersen was on hand Sunday showing visitors the Australian method of shearing. Petersen started off by putting a female sheep on her rear end and then cutting ...

Making a sweater from scratch — from shearing a sheep to dyeing the wool to knitting it up — is a project filled with lessons in "Unraveling" by Peggy Orenstein.