The farmer-owned national wool marketing organisation, Primary Wool Cooperative Ltd, has become the major sponsor of shearing scoring in New Zealand. The company is sponsoring the locally-developed ...

Australia will shear its smallest number of sheep in more than 120 years with predictions the numbers will slip below 60 ...

BRITISH Wool has re-launched its training offer to young farmers. The organisation and the National Federation of Young Farmers Clubs (NFYFC) have enjoyed a strong relationship and collaborated in ...

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At daybreak on a freezing cold day high in the Andes, dozens of Peruvian peasants clamber up a mountainside to carry out a centuries-old tradition of shearing the highly-prized wool off vicunas, which ...

The Australian wool industry is going through a tumultuous time with the market now down a massive 40 per cent on this time last year. The Australian wool market is now 670c/kg cheaper than this time ...

Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ancestral "chaccu" shearing - Copyright AFP Lillian SUWANRUMPHA Vicunas in Totoroma, Peru, ahead of the annual ...

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At daybreak on a freezing cold day high in the Andes, dozens of Peruvian peasants clamber up a mountainside to carry out a centuries-old tradition of shearing the highly-prized wool off vicunas, which ...

“Shearless Fleece,” it read next to a picture of a sheep heavy with wool. “Not a single sheep was sheared in the making of this garment.” The sixth-generation sheep farmer in Monkton, Ontario, logged ...