John Steitz and Carol Treadwell Steitz specialize in selling clean, colored merino wool to spinners all over the world. It’s a sustainable way to make a little extra money in their retirement years, ...

Merino wool is a sustainable material when the sheep are treated well. Sheep Inc, short for Sheep Included, is transparent about its efforts to ensure their animals are: They allocate wearers a sheep ...

BLACKFOOT – If you have a shirt, sweater, or other garment made by Pendleton Mills and the label says “Fine merino wool,” you could be wearing clothing made from wool grown right here in Bingham ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Nearly every suit on the market today — especially in the high and mid-range area of the market — is made from wool shorn from the descendants of ...

Editor's note: J. Kevin Graffagnino is executive director of the Vermont Historical Society. He is one of several guest writers filling in while Mark Bushnell takes a break from this column until July ...

“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 ...

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The new forecast is for production of 314 million kilograms, a 6.5 percent increase on the 2020-21 estimated shorn wool production of 294 million kilograms. Incoming AWPFC chairman Stephen Hill said ...