Nick Greaves, a shearer from Staffordshire, set a new eight-hour world lamb record in August 2024 by shearing 764 lambs. The fastest time in which a single lamb has ever been sheared is 37.9 seconds, ...

Producers are working to breed "low-maintenance" sheep as farmers and workers continue to walk away from the agricultural sector. Leo Tompkins said finding shearers and labourers was getting harder, ...

Labour’s Donald MacKinnon was unable to attend the event in London with the Chancellor because of preparations for the upcoming lambing season.