The Wairoa A and P Shears in a woolshed northwest of Wairoa in 2020. With Cyclone Gabrielle having left long-lasting damage at the town's showgrounds, this year'd shearing championships are also being ...

Lionel Taumata, winner of the Waiau Rugby Club Open Speed Shear in North Canterbury on Saturday, pictured in one of his first open show-competition heats, at Waimate, in 2019. Photo / SSNZ Gore ...

The 40th New Zealand Shears Shearing and Woolhandling Championships have begun in Te Kūiti, with a sense of nostalgia and ...

It was a big weekend for Masterton shearer Paerata Abraham, who had two title wins – 24 hours and over 1000km apart - after scoring just three show-shearing open-finals in more than a decade of trying ...

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A new Te Puna Speed Shear record has been set with a sheep shorn in an impressive 15.3 seconds on Saturday night. The record, set by Hawke’s Bay shearer Tiara Tipu stunned the crowd, with the previous ...

The Crow Wing County Fair was not a dry fair Thursday, with rain falling steadily throughout the morning and afternoon. The cool, wet weather didn't dampen spirits in the livestock arena that ...

But they could be upstaged by a bloke about to turn 85. Bob Rollinson, principal of Concordia Merino stud, at Mysia in Central Victoria, said he would consider bending his back to shear a sheep on the ...