Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ancestral "chaccu" shearing - Copyright AFP Lillian SUWANRUMPHA Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ...

(KUTV) -- Utah wool producers have something important to say to PETA in response to its sheep billboard in Salt Lake City. "First thing that's important to understand about shearing is it's cruel and ...

Pinwheel Farm lies quiet but for bird songs, the rustling of a llama in its pen and the not-so-distant wail of a train whistle. Yet Rickie Bridges, standing next to heaps of freshly sheared sheep’s ...

When Mitzi Baker walked into a meeting room recently, every head turned to admire the gray suit she was wearing. When she mentioned that her mother had knitted it, they were impressed. When she said ...

The Government and industry are supporting training initiatives to improve animal welfare outcomes in New Zealand woolsheds, ...

The government and the shearing industry have announced a $75,000 programme to improve animal welfare in the industry. The ...

SYDNEY – 9 April, 2019 – The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) has worked with Microsoft partner MicroChannel to develop and roll out a smartphone app and cloud ...

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 ...

At daybreak on a freezing cold day high in the Andes, dozens of Peruvian peasants clamber up a mountainside to carry out a centuries-old tradition of shearing the highly-prized wool off vicunas, which ...