But at age 85, time has finally caught up to him. Though one habit will be harder to break: his annual visit to the Fraser ...
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SYDNEY – 9 April, 2019 – The Australian Wool Exchange (AWEX) has worked with Microsoft partner MicroChannel to develop and roll out a smartphone app and cloud ...
The Longreach 19-year-old has followed her grandfather into the shearing sheds of western Queensland, and recently became a roustabout: sweeping the wooden boards, picking up fleeces and throwing them ...
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 ...
IN the course of his Australian tour, the Duke of Gloucester visited the Ercildoune shearing sheds, where he sheared a sheep which is reported to be a direct descendant of the original merinos ...
Feedback mentions the Ig Nobel prize awarded for an Australian paper on the best surface for dragging sheep to be sheared (11 October). Sheep are dragged on their rumps, not with a rope round their ...