Rural Life
A farmer from Co. Kerry said he is "feeling a bit stiff and sore" after shearing over 2,000 sheep across 50 hours for charity.
A Co. Kerry farmer has today (Thursday, July 3) embarked on a marathon sheep shearing challenge for two worthy causes.
A farmer from Co. Kerry is currently preparing for a charity challenge to shear around 2,000 sheep over the course of 50 hours.
Sheep
Intense competition and amazing skills were on display during the Mountbellew Community Sheep-shearing Festival Shearfest 2025.
N.Ireland
The December 2024 agricultural census confirmed a 4% drop in Northern Ireland’s total sheep numbers, year-on-year.
Homemade bread baking the old fashioned way; butter churning; sheep shearing by hand and a working sheepdog demonstration are among the slew of traditional skills to be celebrated deep in the Comeragh mountains in Waterford, as the Comeraghs Wild Festival is set to get underway the first two
With June just days away, a high risk period for blowfly strike approaches for sheep farms across the country where farmers may be considering when to shear their flock.
The scarcity of skilled shearers in today’s market landscape is currency posing challenges in the Australian lamb trade.
Applications to enter a new national sheep welfare scheme are expected to open in early April of this year.
A Tyrone farmer has set a new record after a mammoth nine hour solo, sheep shearing challenge saw him sheer 858 lambs.
James O'Connor took on an arduous 24-hour shearing challenge this weekend to raise funds for his sister Mary Lynch's cancer treatment.
The Clonmany Agricultural Show in Co. Donegal has been selected as the venue for this year's sheep shearing world championship.
Last weekend, many farmers took advantage of good weather to save first-cut silage, while others took the chance to commence sheep shearing.
Farmer-to-merchant wool trading is set to kick into gear in the coming weeks, as shearing will commence on sheep farms across the country.
A New Zealander has smashed the world record for the number of ewes sheared in the space of eight hours at a farm in the UK.
A Scottish man has sheared more than 2,000 sheep in a 50-hour endurance test, raising thousands of pounds for charity.
Irish shearers competed strongly at the business end of the World Shearing and Wool Handling Championships in New Zealand over the weekend.
Irish shearer Ivan Scott has finished third in the world speed shear final in New Zealand at the World Shearing Championships.
Agri Politics
A shearer in Australia has managed to teach himself how to shear a sheep one-armed after an car accident in 2008 left him with only one arm.
