Due to a spike in global mutton prices over the past decade and for want of a sheep variety that can thrive on freezing plateaus, many herders in Gansu province began crossbreeding a local sheep ...

With more than a thousand breeds to choose from, first-time sheep farmers must plan carefully, making sure to provide plenty of space and strong fencing. Sheep are social animals, so they need ...

Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a narrowboat ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Sheep farmers in rural Australia waited more than half a century for wool prices to come roaring back, only to find there aren't enough shearers to trim their golden fleeces. "Once ...

LAWRENCE, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - One word best defines how Megan Landes-Murphy and her husband Tom Murphy met, made career choices and launched a unique-to-Nebraska business. Sheep. Neither ...

BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. -- Center of the Nation Wool, Inc. is aptly named. It's at the center of major producing areas, and at a geographical center if you count Alaska and Hawaii, says Larry Prager, ...

CHIMAYÓ, N.M. (AP) – A New Mexico State University initiative aims to help secure the future of a pair of centuries-old practices in the state: herding sheep and weaving their wool into designs, both ...