Shady Side Farm in Holland hosted its annual open house event where 69 sheep were shorn in just over three hours using a ...

In rural Oregon, farmers are leveraging technology to sell their products to a mostly urban clientele. Fifth-generation sheep shearer Jacob Valentine, proprietor of Darkside Shearing in Crabtree, OR, ...

For Maree Smith and her family, shearing is in the blood. The work is tough, physical and taxing on the body, but it is a lifestyle the family proudly embraces. In an arena once dominated by men, ...

GRAND RAPIDS – George Shearing, the world famous jazz pianist who penned "Lullaby of Birdland" among many other tunes, has died at age 91. Though blind from birth, Shearing was a major artist from the ...

George Shearing enjoys an international reputation as a pianist, arranger and composer. Equally at home on the concert stage as in jazz clubs, Shearing is recognized for inventive, orchestrated jazz.

KNITTERS AND THEIR PRIZED STASHES... are the stuff of creative legend, but every needles-wielding artisan knows their skeins possess wonderful and woolly origin stories... or yarns, if you will. Going ...

Didling Farm’s flock manager, Matt Blyth, has seen a marked improvement in lamb weights and survival since he started shearing ewes before lambing five years ago. The indoor lambing flock of 1,050 ...

An all-female team – shearers and shed hands – took to the board on the Barber family’s Coliban Park at Sutton Grange last week. The all-female shearing team wasn’t planned by contractor Adam Webb – ...