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 ...

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 first day of shearing is always an exciting if busy time, as local shearers sharpen their combs, kelpies bark and bleating sheep with their lustrous wool fleeces pack the lanolin-stained wooden ...

What does the Australian wool industry look like? "Dust and everyday sheep", thinks former master wool classer turned photographer Chantel McAlister, and she has the photos to prove it. Since 2015, ...

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