The drop led to many sheep farmers destroying fleeces rather than enduring the further cost of transporting them to sorting depots. Jim Robertson has a flock of 950 cheviots on hi ...

The sheep are losing their winter wool, and you’re invited to the shearing! Chester County Parks and Preservation’s annual Sheep and Wool Day will be held Saturday, May 3, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., at ...

GLENMOORE — The sheep are losing their winter wool, and you’re invited to the shearing! Chester County Parks + Preservation’s annual Sheep & Wool Day will be held on Saturday, April 27, from 11 a.m.

Raising sheep on forages grown under solar panels provides economic stability and may have even saved one family’s fifth ...

Marie Hoff with her Ouessant sheep in a pasture. Facing low prices for coarse wools, sheep farmers around the U.S. have looked for creative ways to sell wool into alternative markets: as insulation, ...

Driving down Bayside Drive, surrounded by fields and pastures, can make it hard to remember that just a few miles away Dover is buzzing with activity. Jo-Anne Lesard runs a business on a farm off ...

It's Monday, which means Sunrise 7 features local farmers and producers by bringing your local products right to your home. The Farm to Fork farmer of the week is Cathy Wineman of Cathys Creations out ...

Four southeast Minnesota farms hosted the first annual Sheep and Fiber Farm Tour. Organized by Fiber Folke, a group of nearly 30 fiber enthusiasts, the event promoted wool sheep breeds and fiber arts, ...

TULIA, Texas — Off of a dirt road near Tulia, Texas, a solar farm four times larger than New York City's Central Park soaks up the sun. Beneath its panels, more than 2,000 sheep and 11 dogs maintain ...

Jim Robertson, a farmer from Langholm and chairman of British Wool, is hopeful of a further recovery in prices [BBC] Fashion's almost forgotten fabric is on the way back as fleece prices enjoy record ...