A World shearing record is under way with four women in target early to average about 480 each in a South Otago woolshed.

Starting the four-stand Women’s 8 hour strong wool lamb record attempt at 7.30am on a cold morning at “Melrose Station’, near Owaka, and set to end at 5.30pm, the four had shorn 1446 by the ...

The high-stakes events take place Friday and Saturday, with the Northern Southland Community Shears held on Friday at ...

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 ...