FAIRPOINT - He isn't an imposing figure, but with clippers in hand, Loren Opstedahl has turned sheep shearing into a 21-year career of championship seasons. Opstedahl, 37, began the 2009 shearing ...

Cup of coffee in hand, Jim Barnett takes a break from shearing Brian Iburg's sheep. They seem unaware of the change, however, as they mill around the barn. It's hard to hear over the bleating, which ...

MANKATO — Joe Domeier vividly remembers the first time he sheared a sheep over 15 years ago, and it wasn’t pretty. “The very first sheep I sheared was my own and it was just brutal,” Domeier laughed. ...

Jake, the sheep shearing crew boss, called me on Saturday evening, hoping to arrive at my barn on Monday morning. I already had a big day of commitments on Monday so we settled on Tuesday morning ...

Staff Writer Two-year-old Devynn Martin had some words of advice for the timid sheep who was getting her first haircut. “It doesn’t hurt. Don’t worry. It doesn’t hurt,” the little blonde-haired girl ...

LAVINA -- The sheep were coming fast into the shearing wagon, as fast as the five cutters inside could wrestle each 140-pound animal onto its back for a close shave. At the front of the line, Ralph ...

"We have 20 students learning how to shear sheep and 15 here for the wool classing certification," said Chris Schauer, director of the NDSU Hettinger Research Extension Center (HREC), and coordinator ...

Meet Chris. He's a sheep who had the fortune (or bad luck, depending on how you look at it) to elude shearers in Australia for about five years before he was finally captured earlier this week. Good ...

HERMON, Maine (WABI) - There will be shear delight this Saturday in Hermon as Maple Crest Farm hosts Sheep for a Cure. The fundraiser benefits Cancer Care of Maine, a cause close to organizers’ hearts ...

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