The Press Democrat

The women raising Sonoma sheep for wool, despite economic struggles

Martha Cant sells her wool and yarn through a Bodega co-op and has produced some commercially-spun yarn from her sheep.
KCUR 89.3 FM

Wool prices are so low, Midwest sheep producers have to find new uses — or raise sheep without it

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 ...
Marketplace

With low wool prices, Midwestern sheep farmers are innovating with the fiber

At a family farm in central Iowa, a sheep shearer leans over a ram, making smooth, clean strokes through several inches of shaggy wool. For most breeds, this fiber will just keep growing unless it’s ...
Daily Journal

‘My heart was always just with the sheep.’ One Navajo’s push to keep tradition vibrant

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 ...
Grand Forks Herald

PRAIRIE COUNTRY: Raising sheep without borders

RED LAKE FALLS, Minn. -- Woolly lambs nestled in deep beds of sweet-smelling hay, nursing their mothers or frolicking about their pens pause as their shepherd walks through, murmuring gentle words to ...
AG Week

Rebecca Diwan gathers the wool at her Rochester sheep, goat farm

Little Bo-Peep might have lost her sheep, but Rebecca Diwan has found herself a flock. Diwan moved to Rochester in 2020, and since then she’s become a shepherdess to a flock of 15 Teeswater sheep and ...
AOL

'My heart was always just with the sheep.' One Navajo's push to keep tradition vibrant

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 ...