Two World shearing record attempts are set to be shorn in New Zealand next month, both in the heat of an inland Otago summer.

Shearing Sports New Zealand has a new chairman after the retirement from the position of former shearing great Sir David Fagan. The new leader is Raglan farmer and shearing contractor Warren Parker, ...

Some 15 individuals learned the art and technique of New Zealand-style sheep shearing during a three-day sheep shearing school at the Morgan County Fairgrounds in Brush, February 5-7. On the first day ...

WELLINGTON , New Zealand – A New Zealand farm lobby group says sheep shearing has the potential to become an Olympic demonstration sport. Just don’t count on seeing it at London next summer or Rio in ...

As a boisterous 1,800-strong crowd looks on, Englishman Adam Berry wrestles a wriggling, kicking sheep to the floor and begins shearing intently. Within 60 seconds, the puzzled-looking sheep is ...

Southland shearer Leon Samuels is in the New Zealand transtasman team, now in Katanning, Western Australia, for machine shearing, blade shearing and woolhandling tests over the weekend. Photo / Pete ...

The prizegiving line-up after the Wools of New Zealand Shearing Sports New Zealand team in a shearing test match at Martel, France, on July 12, 2024. Photo / Supplied. The Wools of New Zealand ...

More than 200 shearers and woolhandlers are expected to be in action during the busiest weekend on the Shearing Sports New Zealand calendar from Friday to Saturday. The competition will be spread the ...

Sir David Fagan is a 16-time winner of the coveted Golden Shears. But he lost an exhibition match against New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English at the World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships.

WELLINGTON , New Zealand - A New Zealand farm lobby group says sheep shearing has the potential to become an Olympic demonstration sport. Just don't count on seeing it at London next summer or Rio in ...

A young farmer from Dorset has won a major shearing competition in New Zealand – the first English competitor to claim the title in almost 30 years. Having worked for six months over the summer in New ...

FORT RANSOM, N.D. — A large Romney sheep makes its way out of the chute and on to the shearing station, waiting for the sheep shearer to get started on its overgrown coat. As the shearer picks up the ...