FROM PAST ACTIVITIES COVERING DAVIE COUNTY. FAMILIES HAD THE CHANCE TO LEARN A VERY UNIQUE LESSON TODAY HOW TO SHEAR A SHEEP. TODAY’S OPPORTUNITY WAS MADE POSSIBLE THANKS TO A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ...

NORRIS, Mont. - Spring time is sheep-shearing time, and a small group at Montana State University's Red Bluff Research Ranch east of Norris, are cutting away. But they're all first-timers, part of the ...

"We have 20 students learning how to shear sheep and 15 here for the wool classing certification," said Chris Schauer, director of the NDSU Hettinger Research Extension Center (HREC), and coordinator ...

GILLETTE — A group of about 25 people gathered in an old, dusty barn Saturday. Some sat at a table, some on a beam along the wall. Others sat on bales of fleece nearby. Young and old, they ate plates ...

"It's something I have always wanted to do," McRae said as she, her brother and four friends from Jordan joined a dozen like-minded Montanans and some 300 sheep at a sheep-shearing school in Bozeman.

WHITE CLOUD, Mich. — It's certainly not an easy job, but for sisters Fawn and Gracie Muraske, showing animals and shearing sheep is a passion. And five years ago, they turned that passion into a small ...

FORT RANSOM, N.D. — A large Romney sheep makes its way out of the chute and on to the shearing station, waiting for the sheep shearer to get started on its overgrown coat. As the shearer picks up the ...