At least one more world shearing record attempt is planned in the summer Downunder, with a solo women’s eight-hour merino bid ...

Following is a transcription of the video: Narrator: Here in the New Zealand countryside, 25,000 sheep are sheared in just 10 days. Tom O'Sullivan: It's a nightmare trying to keep the sheep still.

NEW Zealand shearer and former professional squash hopeful Jamie Skiffington is looking well primed for a solo world ...

Voice 1: New Zealand is home to 5 million people and ... the country sent 84 million tonnes of wool overseas. Voice 2: Shearing sheep is hard, physical work as shearers must have skill and stamina ...

The Northern Southland Community Shears’ New Zealand fullwool shearing and woolhandling championships will be held in a ...

SAFE is calling for an independent inquiry after evidence of severe violence towards sheep was captured across 34 farms.

which incorporated the New Zealand lamb shearing championships. Despite the end of the competition, a victim of dwindling ...

The story of Wairarapa shearer David Buick’s bounce back from near-crippling injuries in a farm accident over three years ago ...

Alexia Phillips, from Waikato, but based in West Australia, will make the attempt on February 22 at Spring Valley Farm, Capercup Road North, Darkan, about 200km south of Perth and 70 km north of ...

The New Zealand Merino Company says it will investigate claims of animal cruelty by an animal rights group - and could expel ...

“At shearing time we employ independent shearing contractors, to shear the sheep, who work in accordance with New Zealand industry accepted guidelines and practices,” the Cochranes said in a ...