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Adrian Fini-led Human Urban has lodged a $110 million proposal to redevelop the heritage-listed Elders Wool Stores building in Fremantle into a residential and hospitality project. H-U is estimating ...

A farmer has been sentenced for the "shocking and cruel" mistreatment of his sheep. Dead animals were found decaying in and around buildings used by Daniel Hayward and about 30 of his flock ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Thousands of sheep graze across rural Texas plains to maintain vegetation at one of the country’s largest ...

Without the support of the industry for a change, UK sheep producers could see castration and tailing of lambs banned completely as it has been in many European countries. The Animal Welfare Committee ...

dragging sheep across the floor, and sewing up a bloody wound without painkillers. The ministry said the "very concerning" acts identified in more than 200 video files were the focus in the next phase ...

PETA's undercover video footage showed workers standing on a sheep's neck, dragging sheep across the floor ... Before the investigation, MPI was working with wool sector groups to set up an oversight ...

Imbert-Vier said Europeans risk “getting sucked into a system where they don’t think anymore and just become submissive, consumer sheep for hire”. The only remedy, he said, is for Europe to ...

Even living on the east coast, it's been hard for me to think of anything but the California wildfires over the past couple of weeks and everyone who has been affected by them. Not only have the fires ...

In some regions, solar sheep farms include the added value of wool production, but some markets are too small to reach a profitable enough scale, and the value of the wool is lost. In addition ...

Mr Lamb said the indications are that the price lift is too late to change the decisions of those growers moving out of wool sheep. He agreed there needed to be a more substantive market change to ...