In March 2020, the sheep farming industry in South Dakota — the sixth-largest in the country — was humming along nicely. After a few sluggish decades, prices for meat and wool were at or near all-time ...

GREELEY, Colo. — Western U.S. sheep ranchers are worried because meatpacking giant JBS USA just purchased the nation’s second-largest lamb slaughterhouse and plans to convert it into a beef plant — a ...

LAS CRUCES - In four hours, wool went from the back of a Debouillet sheep and into a hand-made shawl before your eyes. The Sheep to Shawl demonstration was one of many that visitors to the New Mexico ...

Rising Locust Farm started a few years ago when Frank and Kay Rhodes bought 40 acres of land in Mount Joy Township. Her parents, Harrison and Amy Koser, later moved to the farm. Then their two sons, ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – For over 50 years, the Las Arañas Spinners and Weavers Guild along with the New Mexico Wool Growers have been showcasing wool’s progression at the New Mexico State Fair.

A helicopter crew aiding Nebraska Game & Parks Commission with the capture and processing of bighorn in the state's panhandle helped a few sheep get airborne earlier this week. South Dakota State ...

A team of local meat producers who are competing with New Zealand and Australia to diversify Wiregrass agriculture and keep a particular customer buying locally is taking a jab at a different kind of ...

Susan Withnell is an artist living in Westminster. Withnell could not draw or paint, so she thought she was not artistic. She started quilting in her 30s and realized that she had a good eye for color ...