After a busy 2024, just one record attempt is currently on the records society books, being Rotorua shearer Jamie Skiffingon’s attempt on the ultimate goal, the men’s solo nine-hours strongwool lambs ...
Following is a transcription of the video: Narrator: Here in the New Zealand countryside, 25,000 sheep are sheared in just 10 days. Tom O'Sullivan: It's a nightmare trying to keep the sheep still.
NEW Zealand’s shearing royalty packed a remote Wairarapa wool shed yesterday for what was the first trans-global attack on a ...
Voice 1: New Zealand is home to 5 million people and ... the country sent 84 million tonnes of wool overseas. Voice 2: Shearing sheep is hard, physical work as shearers must have skill and stamina ...
A veritable royalty of New Zealand shearing packed a remote Wairarapa woolshed today for what was the first trans-global attack on a World shearing record. But the ultimate prize proved beyond all the ...
As the year draws to a close, Waikato Herald is taking stock of 2024. What moved readers most? As part of a 12-day series, ...
On Saturday, Balme, one of New Zealand’s top shearers throughout ... While Grace was 35 seconds clear in shearing the 12 sheep in 13min 45.3s, Bradley had the better quality and won by 0.765pts.
On Friday, current New Zealand representative Nathan Stratford, of Invercargill, won the New Zealand Full Wool Open Shearing title ... Shears had its fastest 20-sheep open final, in what became ...
Earlier on Saturday, Jones and Lewis were to have shorn in the second Wools of New Zealand Shearing Series test, of 20 sheep each, against the New Zealand team of Abraham and brother-in-law David ...
It came at a time when most of the annual flight of young UK shearers to New Zealand had already headed home to the lambing beats more than a month ago. While new to the sheep of the North Island ...
A Scottish woman has broken a sheep shearing world record in Cornwall. Una Cameron, aged 51, sheared 517 sheep at Trefranck Farm, in Launceston, on Wednesday beating the previous women's solo ...