Jake, the sheep shearing crew boss, called me on Saturday evening, hoping to arrive at my barn on Monday morning. I already had a big day of commitments on Monday so we settled on Tuesday morning ...

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 ...

It's an appointment we generally arrange when we require a cut and not by observing what the specific season happens to be. But when a sheep gets a trim, the calendar on the wall very often shows the ...

LESTER, Iowa — "Sheep shearers are in short supply in Australia just like here," says Alex Moser. Shearing is work that Moser enjoys, so a sheep shearing trip seemed like a good idea. His seven-week ...

Since starting in 2015 with his grandfather’s help, he’s grown quality hay while pursuing his true passion—sheep shearing. After shearing school, he honed his craft and now runs a mobile shearing barn ...

As one of the leading sheep producers in the United States, South Dakota is home to hundreds of thousands of these resilient ruminants. Throughout time, these animals have helped feed and clothe our ...

HETTINGER, N.D. -- They were like patient customers at a beauty school, suffering a few clipper nicks without making too much of a fuss. After all, a sheep shearer's gotta learn sometime. Hundreds of ...