Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On a sunny spring day in early March, thousands of Western Slope sheep line up in a corral unknowingly waiting for their annual haircut. Herders gently prod ...

Shady Side Farm in Holland hosted its annual open house event where 69 sheep were shorn in just over three hours using a ...

NORRIS, Mont. - Spring time is sheep-shearing time, and a small group at Montana State University's Red Bluff Research Ranch east of Norris, are cutting away. But they're all first-timers, part of the ...

At a family farm in central Iowa, a sheep shearer leans over a ram, making smooth, clean strokes through several inches of shaggy wool. For most breeds, this fiber will just keep growing unless it’s ...

Sheep producers in the Midwest say wool prices have been dismal for decades, but in recent years they’ve plummeted. Now producers are looking for new ways to add value to this fiber or drop it all ...

And the claim of widespread abuse of sheep during shearing is incorrect. If People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals agents have seen severe abuse, then this would be an exception and should be ...