Typically, sheep are shorn once a year. This means that the wool is clipped from the animal, producing a bundle of wool that is called a fleece. Several fleeces are bundled together, bagged, and then ...

Much like students who work all year long to pass their difficult final exams at the conclusion of the school year, local wool growers will experience their own finals this week, but their grades will ...

New Zealand wool exporters scrambling to fill orders for lower-grade wool have driven up the price of what are known as oddments in recent weeks because the season to date has delivered an ...

The co-founder of a company transforming sheep wool into period products, nappies and incontinence pads wants to "bring real value back to wool". Wellington start-up Woolchemy has taken top honours at ...

In the sheep farming regions of New South Wales, a peculiar transformation is underway. Spread across paddocks where crops have not grown properly for years, farmers are laying down a material that ...