As winter sets in, many of us are turning to our cosy jumpers, snug base layers and anything else that can take the bite out of cold mornings. That is where merino wool shines. It is warm, comfortable ...

Synonymous with the South Island high country, merino sheep may be farmed more widely as farmers are lured by high fine wool prices and genetic improvements. Merino woolgrower Bill Sutherland, of ...

More than 1,000 kilograms of wool samples, lab notes and technical drawings spent decades gathering dust in a British home. A Victorian sheep farmer just brought them back.

The merino conjures up images of fine micron wool and wrinkles and an imposing concrete statue in the New South Wales city of Goulburn. But in the north of NSW poor prices for fine micron wool have ...

Researchers from Western Sydney University have found a new, non-invasive way to detect pregnancy in Merino sheep through the analysis of reproductive hormones in wool. The study, supervised by Dr.

Late-afternoon light falls soft on the rocky outcrops of Dwarsvlei farm, just south of Middelburg, Eastern Cape. It’s the end of a mild Karoo winter Saturday in June, when most country folk are ...

Klipfontein Farm offers a rare look inside a 300-year-old South African estate near Cape Town, where historic architecture, working farmland, aviation, and peaceful rural life come together across ...

“We went in to test those two theories because as it turns out no-one has been able to directly measure them before,” study coauthor Duane Harland of agricultural research institute AgResearch in New ...