Some sheep are reared for their wool too, which is used to make clothes ... which are used to make foods such as cereal, bread, pasta and even cookies. The farmer grows a variety of vegetables ...

A NEW header-harvestable crop-pasture legume suited to mildly acidic-alkaline soils in low-medium rainfall areas has been ...

According to a new exhibition in Amsterdam, centuries of human intervention turned the animal into “a wool-producing machine ...

WA live sheep exporters and their wool-growing colleagues across the country have good reason to feel the same.

to talk about the advantages of sheep with no wool. Federated Farmers’ local government spokeswoman (and Gisborne farmer) calls for the Government to make seven key changes to restore confidence ...

Few people have spent time gazing into a sheep’s eyes, but if you have, you may have noticed something very strange about their pupils. Instead of being round, as is the case with humans ...

In the south, conditions are very dry, as is typical in the height of summer, and growers are holding cereals at least until the autumn break arrives to get the 2025-26 crop up and away. Consumers in ...

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However, up to now, a mystery has remained regarding the preferred plant food ingredients, especially those beyond cereals, and which product was made from cereal grain. A study published in the ...

Imbert-Vier said Europeans risk “getting sucked into a system where they don’t think anymore and just become submissive, consumer sheep for hire”. The only remedy, he said, is for Europe to ...