From habitat degradation caused by grazing sheep to the chemicals used in scouring, the entire process of rearing sheep and turning shorn wool into usable fiber is riddled with threats to wildlife.

The fibers are then carded, a process that de-tangles and ... and a super-soft cashmere undercoat. While a sheep can produce at least 3 kilos of wool each year, a cashmere goat will only give ...

South Dakota State University Extension hosts an annual Sheep Shearing School — a skill Sheep Field Specialist Jaelyn Whaley says there is a definite need for.

But a good shearer can shear a sheep in a minute and the sheep won't even wriggle. It will just sit there. Narrator: This wool normally would be cleaned, dyed, woven, and sold across the globe as ...

Wool uses 367 times more land per bale than cotton, and the chemically intensive process of cleaning shorn wool kills aquatic life and pollutes waterways. “Sheep grazing pastureland may seem innocent ...