People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) is calling for mandatory webcams in all shearing sheds after alleging sheep are being mistreated on farms in New Zealand. The animal rights ...

That’s the situation facing farmers who are voting with their chequebooks by paying a premium for these new self-shedding ...

AT least one more world shearing record attempt is planned in Australia this summer, with a solo eight hour Merino ewe bid confirmed this week with the World Sheep Shearing Records Society...Read More ...

Hanson’s win came at the show where sister Emaraina Braddick scored her first Open woolhandling win in 2016, while another sister, Ana Braddick, joined the list of winners in the family when she ...

An official investigation into allegations of animal mistreatment has uncovered some "very concerning" instances documented within the video footage of an animal rights group exposé.

LEADING ethical wool marketer, the New Zealand Merino Company, has suspended two farms from its ZQ program after anti-wool activist group PETA released video footage of alleged cruel treatment of ...

Shearing Sports New Zealand Southland-Otago delegate Michael ... will want to familiarise themselves with the types of sheep being shorn at the shows and gain an edge for what he expects to ...

Led by defending champion, three-times winner and near perennial top qualifier Nathan Stratford, of Invercargill, the 10 were among 20 who resumed the battle for places in the qualifying dozen in the ...

While new to the sheep of the North Island, it took Mayo just 8min 15.7sec for the five second-shear sheep, almost 50 seconds quicker than next-man-off and fellow Canterbury Marlborough circuit ...

Having spent most of his time traveling the world shearing sheep, Will Hinton has changed farming direction. He now milks cows on a share-farming basis in ...