Feb 9 (Reuters) - The World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships kicked off in New Zealand on Wednesday with hundreds of competitors from around the world. Held for the first time on the country's ...

Southern Field Days organisers expect a full field of top professional shearers for the Speed Shearing event at Waimumu, a ...

But she wasn't worried. The "junior" shearer (classes are based on experience and skill, not age), a 23-year-old from Selby, north of Pierre, said this was her first competition. She started shearing ...

Gethin Lewis has become the first Welshman to win an open shearing title in New Zealand in more than a decade.

The annual sheep haircuts occurred this week, the earliest we’ve ever done them, and not a moment too soon. With the new miniature flock I brought home recently scheduled to start lambing in just ...

Gethin Lewis, who works 3-4 months each year for Napier shearing contractor Brendan Mahony, surprised even himself with his win in the Taihape Shears Open final at Erewhon Station on Saturday, with a ...