CANFIELD — Saturday’s hot weather at the 177th annual Canfield Fair did not deter people from an interest in wool as artisans demonstrated how to shear it from sheep and use it to make clothing and ...

Author's note: This is a class project that I wrote for an Advanced Sociology Class which was required for my Master's Degree at Texas Tech University in 1970. My father David Cruz Sr. owned a Sheep ...

GENESEE TOWNSHIP, Michigan — Last year, 16 professionals competed in the first national sheep shearing contest to be held in Genesee County. Contest coordinator Deb Caryl of Davison Township is ...

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There's not many people in this world who can say they have shorn the Queen of England's sheep. But Mel Johnston who grew up near the central west New South Wales town of Carcoar can. He notes it as ...

Shearing sheep can be a seasonal occupation, lasting from February to May, or it can be year-round. For one student at the HREC shearing school, the job is year-round, McWilliams said. That student ...

You’d expect William and Kate to be more used to the finer points of silver cutlery than a sheep shearing machine – but the royal couple seemed at home trying out some farm work today. They both got ...

Roots date back to 1910. It's annual sales are $500,000 worldwide. The firm, located at Platinum and Main, employs 3. The plain red brick building at 14 W. Platinum in Butte doesn't attract attention, ...

GELLIGAER & District Sheep Shearing Society has been reborn. The society held its last shearing match in 2000 before the foot-and-mouth epidemic brought the event to a halt. It has been dormant since, ...