SAUK CENTRE, Minn. -- It's the single biggest day of the year at Julie Mackenzie's barn in Sauk Centre in central Minnesota. Mackenzie and her family own a small flock of purebred Rambouillet sheep.

Cora Reinbolt, who has been an Extension educator in Bartholomew County for six years and has over 20 years of experience raising sheep, began an additional part-time role this September as Purdue ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. People have been keeping sheep in pens for around 11,000 years. Now scientists are shedding light on this millenia-old connection ...

GANADO, Ariz. (AP) — Growing up in Ganado, a small town in Navajo Nation in eastern Arizona, Nikyle Begay always wanted to visit their grandmother’s sheep. Begay’s parents had grown up raising ...

Agriculture is aging. The average American farmer is about 57 years old, two years older than a decade ago. To feed everyone, we need a new generation of farmers. Taylor Lafleur and Kirstin Liebl are ...

WHITEWOOD, S.D. — Black Hills Land Stewards in Whitewood is working to raise quality sheep while also finding ways to better track and improve sheep genetics. Jeff Clark moved from California to South ...

Sheep producers in the Midwest say wool prices have been dismal for decades, but in recent years they’ve plummeted. Now producers are looking for new ways to add value to this fiber or drop it all ...