The art of hand, or blade, shearing nearly disappeared in Australia, but now hundreds of young shearers are flocking back to the traditional method. And an increase in demand for blade shearing for ...

Veteran shearer Garry Griffin said blades have always been highly regarded by Merino breeders for giving sheep the edge over machine-shorn sheep, but he said the practice had dropped off in the past ...

A pair of blade shearers from Wales have set a new UK benchmark for hand shearing lambs over nine hours. Gareth Pennant Owen and Clive Hamer managed to shear a total of 397 lambs, equating to 44 sheep ...

Visitors to the National Trust's Wimpole Estate have been offered a special course in how to shear a sheep using a traditional method. The one-off course aimed to give budding sheep herders the ...