WOOLPRODUCERS Australia has repeated its call for funding for a wool trade policy office after a recent tour to explore and highlight industry innovation and developments in Vietnam…Read More
Sheep Central, April 17, 2025
OVERSEAS sheep shearers have been granted non-visa access to the United Kingdom in 2025 in a special concession from the Minister for Migration and Citizenship…Read More
Sheep Central, April 16, 2025
A SMALL central North Island town with a population of barely 1000 and a grandstand that holds 2-300 people has been the scene of another Welsh shearing test match demise…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, March 19, 2025
AUSTRALIA’S top sheep shearers have reigned supreme over New Zealand in the latest trans-Tasman test event at the Golden Shears in Masterton, New Zealand, on Saturday night…Read More
NEW Zealand shearer Alexia ‘Lexi’ Phillips has become the latest world record holder after an official tally of 367 Merino ewes in eight hours in a West Australian wool shed on Saturday…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand, February 24, 2025
WESTERN Victorian wool entrepreneur Sherri Symons is among three women named as state finalists for the 2025 AgriFutures Rural Women’s Award…Read More
Sheep Central, February 11, 2025
NEW Zealand shearer Jack Fagan has picked up world shearing’s richest cash prize in a lightning trans-Tasman trip to win the Oberon Quick Shear in New South Wales at the weekend…Read More
Guest Author, February 10, 2025
SOUTHERN Wimmera Merino breeder Warren Russell will maintain a diversified studstock, wool, prime lamb and cropping operation to maintain the flock despite current low wool prices…Read More
Terry Sim, January 29, 2025
AT least one more world shearing record attempt is planned in Australia this summer, with a solo eight hour Merino ewe bid confirmed this week with the World Sheep Shearing Records Society…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand., January 24, 2025
VICTORIAN shearers Luke Hillis and Cameron Hicks have raised more than $8000 for the Movember charity in a marathon ewe shearing in the state’s west…Read More
Terry Sim, January 22, 2025
THREE open final wins in three days have added a remarkable chapter to Wairarapa shearer David Buick’s recovery from near-crippling injuries in a farm accident three years and three months ago…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand., January 20, 2025
NEW Zealand shearer and former professional squash hopeful Jamie Skiffington is looking well primed for a solo world nine-hour strong wool lamb record attempt next week…Read More
Doug Laing, Shearing Sports New Zealand., January 17, 2025