A flock of five Suffolk sheep huddled along the eastern edge of a pen in Shelburne Vineyard, too timid to approach the humans waiting for them to notice a new opening in the electric fence. Amid the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Some vineyards in New Zealand and California are milking sheep for all they're worth. "Well, they are mini-sheep really. Their proper name is Babydoll sheep," New Zealand ...

PASO ROBLES, Calif. – Booker Vineyard in Paso Robles hosted more than 1,200 sheep as part of a handshake deal for a mutually beneficial farming technique known as mob grazing. The technique relies on ...

HOPLAND, Calif. — Call them mutton mowers. University researchers are training sheep to clean up vineyard weeds but stay off the grapes. Enthusiastic and unpicky eaters, sheep are already being used ...

For centuries, farmers have used sheep to graze down unwanted vegetation but, unfortunately, the animals would also snack on crops. So the University of California Cooperative Extension is trying to ...

HOPLAND — Call them mutton mowers. University researchers are training sheep to clean up vineyard weeds but stay off the grapes. Enthusiastic and unpicky eaters, sheep are already being used in some ...

LOMPOC, Calif. – Grape grower Steve Pepe has a new crew of weed whackers who lack Social Security numbers, couldn’t care less about health insurance and never will ask for a raise. Henley, Matilda and ...

NAPA (CBS SF) -- Grazing sheep that were found dead or that disappeared in a Napa County vineyard Friday likely were killed by mountain lions, the vineyard property owner said Thursday. Tom ...

Sheep, contends Mike Benziger, are a vineyard manager's best friend. "They do three things with every step: eat, drop manure and till the cover crop and their manure into the soil. Their hooves are ...