A new shearing sports season starts tomorrow(Friday) with the two-day New Zealand finewool merino championships in Alexandra. It’s the first of 59 shearing sports ...

A dedicated $75,000 fund has been established to support targeted training programmes that improve knowledge, skills, and ...

A sheep farmer in north-west Victoria has amassed what is believed to be the world's largest collection of antique shearing handpieces. Kevin Crook's collection of 270 different shearing handpieces ...

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

New Zealand shearer Alexia (Lexi) Phillips during her solo women's world eight-hours merino ewes shearing record in Western Australia on Saturday. She shore 367 to beat the previous record by nine ...

Australia-based Taumarunui shearers and brothers Floyde Neil (left) and Levi Neil (right) pictured during their successful world record attempt at Rockliffe, about 280km south-southeast of Perth.

The world record for the most Merino lambs shorn in eight hours by a team of five is now held by the Riverina Shearing Gang including Australians Lochie Robertson, Toby Walker and Nick Lehmann ...

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

Don't miss out on the headlines from National. Followed categories will be added to My News. Shearers at the top of their game can earn accolades through the World Sheep Shearing Records Society ...

Saturday afternoon saw a trio of New Zealand-born shearers take the world merino lamb shearing record title, in a record-breaking attempt two years in the making. Brothers Lou and Jim Brown, alongside ...

If there's one thing that typifies the New Zealand Merino Shears, it's the way the whole shearing community, including children, muck-in to make the annual fine-wool championships happen. New Zealand ...

Shearers at the top of their game can earn accolades through the World Sheep Shearing Records Society Incorporated, a governing body for measuring the best in the industry. Aidan Copp, 37, of Gunning ...