N.Ireland
The December 2024 agricultural census confirmed a 4% drop in Northern Ireland’s total sheep...
Sheep
Scottish sheep shearer, Una Cameron, has raised the Solo Women's Nine Hour Strong Wool Ewe Record...
Staffordshire shearer Nick Greaves has set a new 8-Hour World Lamb Shearing Record after he broke the previous holder's record by 10 lambs.
Staffordshire-based shearer Nick Greaves has been preparing for a World Shearing Record attempt...
A Welsh sheep shearer is set to make a record-breaking attempt to shear sheep across nine hours later this month.
The scarcity of skilled shearers in today’s market landscape is currently posing challenges in the Australian lamb trade.
British Wool has announced that its shearing courses are now live on its website. British Wool...
British Wool has extended its shearing training offers for young farmers as part of its...
A farmer from Co. Tyrone has set a new record after sheering 858 lambs in a mammoth nine-hour solo sheep-shearing challenge.
British Wool has relaunched a discounted shearing course offer to members of the National Federation of Young Farmers Club (NFYFC).
The NSA will be backing Kent shepherdess Marie Prebble as she attempts to set a world record shearing attempt...
An experienced Welsh shearer will be making a record-breaking attempt to shear more than 873 lambs in nine hours later this month.
Agri-Business
Two British men are aiming to shear over 1,457 lambs in nine hours, therefore breaking the current British lamb shearing record.
Following the successful return of British Wool training courses in 2021, British Wool has launched the 2022 Shearing & Wool...
A Scottish man has sheared more than 2,000 sheep in a 50-hour endurance test, raising thousands of...
Rural Life
A Scottish man has sheared more than 2,000 sheep in a 50-hour endurance test, raising thousands of pounds for charity.
World News
A shearer in Australia has managed to teach himself how to shear a sheep one-armed after an car accident in 2008 left him with only one arm.
