Area students showcased their farm and ranch skills during the Lubbock County Junior Livestock Show hosted last week at the ...

Much of Montana’s wool still leaves the state before it is ever turned into yarn, fabric, or finished products.

Sheep producers in the Midwest say wool prices have been dismal for decades, but in recent years they’ve plummeted. Now producers are looking for new ways to add value to this fiber or drop it all ...

BELLE FOURCHE, S.D. -- Center of the Nation Wool, Inc. is aptly named. It's at the center of major producing areas, and at a geographical center if you count Alaska and Hawaii, says Larry Prager, ...

BLACKFOOT – If you have a shirt, sweater, or other garment made by Pendleton Mills and the label says “Fine merino wool,” you could be wearing clothing made from wool grown right here in Bingham ...

LAWRENCE, Neb. (Flatwater Free Press) - One word best defines how Megan Landes-Murphy and her husband Tom Murphy met, made career choices and launched a unique-to-Nebraska business. Sheep. Neither ...

Well-cared for and "happy" sheep make the best wool, yarn experts who use rare-breeds have said. Becci and Markus Pamely-Bast founded a wool and hand-dyed yarn business seven years ago on a narrowboat ...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Sheep farmers in rural Australia waited more than half a century for wool prices to come roaring back, only to find there aren't enough shearers to trim their golden fleeces. "Once ...

Due to a spike in global mutton prices over the past decade and for want of a sheep variety that can thrive on freezing plateaus, many herders in Gansu province began crossbreeding a local sheep ...

With more than a thousand breeds to choose from, first-time sheep farmers must plan carefully, making sure to provide plenty of space and strong fencing. Sheep are social animals, so they need ...

The opening up of the Indian economy devastated the sector. Some producers managed to carve out export niches, but have now ...