Katie McRose, the founder of the traveling animal shearing business Right Choice Shearing, remembers the first time she posted a TikTok video showing off her work. It was back in March of this year, ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On a sunny spring day in early March, thousands of Western Slope sheep line up in a corral unknowingly waiting for their annual haircut. Herders gently prod ...

A team of five Australian and New Zealand shearers has set a world record for shearing 2,301 sheep over eight hours. It is the first time this record has been attempted and sets a new bar for other ...

At a "Sheep to Shawl" competition teams shear a sheep, spin the fleece and weave it into a shawl...all in just a couple hours. The fastest team wins. Back now with Day to Day. You've heard of extreme ...

Editor's Note: This is an excerpt from WBUR's Saturday morning newsletter, The Weekender. If you like what you read and want it in your inbox, sign up here. It’s springtime, and just like us, animals ...

Will Kleinert’s mobile sheep-shearing barn brings this service directly to fellow farmers. Will Kleinert of Askome, IL comes from a long line of farmers. Since starting in 2015 with his grandfather’s ...

FAIRPOINT - He isn't an imposing figure, but with clippers in hand, Loren Opstedahl has turned sheep shearing into a 21-year career of championship seasons. Opstedahl, 37, began the 2009 shearing ...

Shearing day at a sheep farm is one of the most important days at the farm and it begins this time of year across Central New York. Depending on the breed of sheep and the growth of their wool, it can ...

What makes a dream job? The chance to travel the world? A workplace in the great outdoors as opposed to a stuffy office? Honing a skill to a competition-worthy level? Sounds pretty good – which is why ...

As the sun rises over a feedlot in a northern corner of San Angelo on a late September morning; a large group of sheep, heavy with overgrown layers of wool, kicks up clouds of dust as they nervously ...