WESTMINSTER, Md. (AP) -- A hundred years ago, most sheep shearers relied on scissor-like blades to cut the wool off of sheep, before motorized clippers took over as the primary method. "Blade shearing ...

South Canterbury shearer Allan Oldfield headed a field of 32 as he started his bid to regain the bladeshearing title he won ...

Emily Chamelin was still a teenager when she took up sheep shearing. She’d convinced her parents to let her raise a few sheep on the family dairy farm in Maryland, but finding someone to shear them ...

Blade shearers from around the world have been sharpening their tools and their eye before the Golden Shears in Masterton ...

New Zealand has become the first nation to win all three teams titles at a World shearing and woolhandling championships. Bouncing back from not a single win in either teams or individual events at ...

Doug Rathke of Hutchinson was one of two people who represented the United States in blade shearing at the World Sheep Shearing Competition, July 4-7, in Le Dorat, France. The USA Blade Team placed ...

More than 400 competitors from 24 countries have assembled as the the Golden Shears are held in Masterton.