Sheep Farming

Forget farmer wants a wife, it's ram wants a ewe as genetics play an increasing role in Australia's sheep-breeding programs.

Sheep producers have slammed a leaked "confidential" document containing draft plans of the Albanese government's multi-million-dollar support package for farmers affected by the live export ban.

China grants access to more Australian lamb and mutton as it looks for other markets during the trade war with US President Donald Trump.

The future of remote WA surfing hotspot "Tombstones" hangs in the balance as locals hope the future buyer of the station connected to it will keep accommodation affordable.

In Bringo, 370 kilometres north of Perth, Bridgitte Brooks is adding "fashion designer" to her CV under occupational therapist, farmer, and mother of four.

Australia is an exporting powerhouse, but the majority of the goods we sell overseas go to Asia.

Farmers label the findings of a state government inquiry into the impact of the live sheep export ban on NSW as a disappointment, with just one recommendation delivered.

After pioneering tuna fishing in Port Lincoln more than 70 years ago, the Tacoma has just delivered water to a parched sheep farm on an island off the Eyre Peninsula.

WA students and teachers say the 'Keep the Sheep' advocacy website, as well as the opposing campaign against live exports, could not be accessed from school computers.

After her first day shearing, Mikayla Hall's hands were covered in blisters. Three years later she's one of the fastest female shearers in Australia.

South Australia's farmers are worried about water supplies for livestock as drought conditions cause dams to dry up across the state.

The UK-owned Consolidated Pastoral Company has bought the 1-million hectare Rawlinna Station for an undisclosed sum.

Alexia Phillips, from New Zealand, breaks the female world record for most merino ewes shorn in eight hours while working in the WA sheep town of Darkan.

The state's sheep industry says pain inflicted by the federal government's looming ban on live exports will be directed towards the Cook government at the ballot box in March.

The national mutton indicator and national processor cow indicator both lifted by 10 per cent this week. Here's what happened. 

Charlie Dunn is barely a teen but has already found his passion in life, and has been hard at it for the past eight years.

After an appeal for public assistance, police say they have identified the owner of two sheep who surprised drivers and stopped traffic at a major intersection in suburban Adelaide.

Originating in the icy Swiss Alps, Valais blacknose sheep are renowned for their fluffy white coats, dark faces, spiral horns and dog-like personalities.

Farmers in the Grampians were able to save a lot of their animals during the bushfires, but now they are faced with a scarcity of stock feed and plenty of fences to fix. 

After a planned closure loomed over the heads of WA's small-scale meat producers for months, the Dardanup Butchering Company this week said it would maintain its "custom kill" service.