Loren Opstedahl of Piedmont demonstrates how to shear a sheep using hand shears, which are called blades, during the sheep shearing championships at Rushmore Hall on Sunday at the Black Hills Stock ...

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 South ...

She started shearing just two years ago and has shorn only around 100 sheep. "I kind of dove into it because we couldn't find anybody to shear our sheep," she said, echoing what many shearers said in ...

Jake, the sheep shearing crew boss, called me on Saturday evening, hoping to arrive at my barn on Monday morning. I already had a big day of commitments on Monday so we settled on Tuesday morning ...

FORT RANSOM, N.D. — A large Romney sheep makes its way out of the chute and on to the shearing station, waiting for the sheep shearer to get started on its overgrown coat. As the shearer picks up the ...