Sheep shearing

Speaking to Farmers Guardian at the Great Yorkshire Show, the Great British Sewing Bee judge shared the importance of choosing wool over synthetic alternatives

Angela Calvert Farmers Guardian's head of livestock reflects on shearing sheep and the wool price

The Aberdeenshire-based Seed family use performance recording to back up visual appraisal in order to best meet the demands of their pedigree breeding stock customers

Champion sheep shearer Alan Derryman runs a large New Zealand Romney flock and a 70-cow Stabiliser herd on his organic unit in Devon

Farmers have gained another small victory after the Government announced a U-turn on overseas visas for sheep shearers

75 highly skilled sheep shearers have been stopped from entering the UK which would have helped prevent heat stroke and disease during the warm months, says MP

On Saturday (July 12), two Welsh farmers achieved a new 8-hour two-stand British ewe shearing record and both individually beat the 8-Hour Solo British Record

Huw Jones, a 27-year-old Welsh shearer from Abergynolwyn, set a new 8-hour solo ewe British record shearing 663 ewes

Scottish champion shearer Hamish Mitchell has given his advice on how to improve and on getting into the competitive arena

With world shearing championship titles to their names, husband and wife Richard and Ffion Jones run their family beef and sheep farm between pursuing their love of competitive shearing and wool handling