Shearers raise funds for cause close to their hearts - Made with funding from NZ On Air

Rowland Smith is the favourite for a rare treble of the three Open titles at the nationals

Taranaki's shearing competition featured world champions. Made with funds from NZ On Air.

Northland-raised Hawke's Bay shearer Rowland Smith has tonight completed an amazing reply to his omission from the New Zealand World

Invercargill shearer Nathan Stratford has loomed as a big Golden Shears hope

Shearing champ Mark Baxter only took it up competitively to follow his fiance

Gisborne woolhandler Aromia Ngarangione only wanted to pay off the student loan

Alexandra woolhandler Pagan Karauria dreams of winning Golden Shears title

Hawke's Bay has a prime chance of claiming the Golden Shears Open shearing title for an eighth time in 10 years in a possible showdown

Rowland Smith became possibly only the fourth person to win 100 Open-class shearing titles with three victories about 24hours and 1700km apart during the weekend.

It'll be as if nothing's missed a beat for many top shearers and woolhandlers, judges and officials as the 52nd two-day Southern Shears

Prime Minister Bill English earned the first major victory of election year today.

New Zealand blade shearer Tony Dobbs has taken the first jump on his opposition ahead of the World blade shearing championships with

His father Desi sheared 2.25 million sheep over 50 years, and son Kopere Downs reached his first million on a farm near Taihape.

You can rightfully accuse Donald Trump of many things but you couldn't accuse the most powerful man in the world of sitting on his hands.

The build-up to the 2017 World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships begins in earnest this week.

A record number of entrants were hanging on for dear life as horses kicked and bulls bucked at the Wairoa A&P Show rodeo. The rodeo

Three shearers from different corners of the country have smashed a world shearing record - 1611 strongwool ewes between them in just eight hours. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

We head to England to talk to the world's best shearer and his older brother who's just set a new world record by shearing 731 strong-wool ewes in nine hours.

Kiwi shearer Matt Smith has smashed the world sheep shearing record over in England in the first record attempt to take place in the Northern Hemisphere.

It's all go in Cornwall today when New Zealand shearer Matt Smith tackles the supreme sheep shearing record of 721 strongwool ewes in nine hours. You can watch it live!

COMMENT: Dom George celebrates the achievements of rally driver Mike McLean and FMG Young Farmer of the Year Athol New in this week's Furious George.