PALMER — Karen Gardner keeps sheep to support her weaving habit. At Gardner's arrival in the family's Matanuska Colony barn on a windy night a few days before Thanksgiving, her flock comes running as ...

Set in the heart of Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region, Prospect Pastoral is a regenerative wool and wheat farm that stands out against the harsh, brittle landscape in which it sits. Bordered by ...

1797: Merino sheep introduced to Australia. Captain Henry Waterhouse and Lieutenant William Kent brought 26 merino sheep in 1797 from the Cape of Good Hope, in present-day South Africa, to Port ...

On 2,000 hectares of grazing land near Uralla, in the Australian state of New South Wales, a mob of more than 6,000 merino and cross-breed sheep forage for six weeks at a time under the approximately ...

Not only is Mumblebone Stud revolutionising Merino sheep breeding, it’s exporting its premium wool to one of the most-saturised overseas markets. Such is the quality of the wool, it is being used in ...

Shrek, the woolliest sheep in New Zealand and possibly the world, has died at age 16. The merino sheep became world famous after it escaped its enclosure on a South Island farm and hid out in a cave ...

MASON – Bridget Kavanagh was once a spokeswoman for the Michigan Department of Agriculture. These days she’s a shepherdess. Kavanagh, who retired from the state in 2015, operates a 35-acre farm near ...

The most recent theft saw 1115 unmulesed sheep stolen from Steven Wheeler’s Lexton farm, bringing the total to about 1710 sheep, or $175,000 in value. “We first noticed when we were shearing, mobs ...