A young farmer and aspiring sheep shearer from Devon has secured a unique opportunity to sharpen her skills under the tutelage of top national instructors. Imogen Ogborne has been announced as the ...

BRITISH Wool has re-launched its training offer to young farmers. The organisation and the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs (NFYFC) have enjoyed a strong relationship and collaborated in ...

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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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's taken 2,988 sheep, 17 countries, 80 bales of wool - and a heap of hard yakka in anyone's language - for Australia to prove itself ...

A teenager from Loch Tay has been chosen as the Scottish winner of a nationwide competition to help young farmers get ahead with shearing sheep. Fifth generation farmer and Breadalbane Academy school ...

Robots shearing sheep. The idea is enough to have 19th-century bush poet Henry Lawson turn in his grave, but Australia's resurgent $3 billion wool industry is working to make it a reality. Faced with ...