Paul McCartney purchased a Scottish farm in the 1960s and, with his wife Linda McCartney, began raising sheep. He loves living there and, as an animal lover, enjoys tending to his animals. Despite ...

GANADO, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother's sheep. Begay's parents had grown up raising ...

SAUK CENTRE, Minn. -- It's the single biggest day of the year at Julie Mackenzie's barn in Sauk Centre in central Minnesota. Mackenzie and her family own a small flock of purebred Rambouillet sheep.

Sheep ranchers are confronting new challenges and rising to seize new opportunities as the industry changes. During a session at the Society for Rangeland Management’s annual meeting in Boise, ...

Agriculture is aging. The average American farmer is about 57 years old, two years older than a decade ago. To feed everyone, we need a new generation of farmers. Taylor Lafleur and Kirstin Liebl are ...

WHITEWOOD, S.D. — Black Hills Land Stewards in Whitewood is working to raise quality sheep while also finding ways to better track and improve sheep genetics. Jeff Clark moved from California to South ...

From domestication to the use of milk and wool to cultural and economic developments, sheep have played a central role in the evolution of human societies. Without livestock like sheep, as well as ...

GANADO, Ariz. -- Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother's sheep. Begay's parents had grown up raising livestock, ...