A Look at Sheep Shearing and Small-Scale Farming Artisans

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<p>Danny Smith of Kingsville, Mo., pulled up to the farm around 2 p.m. He didn’t leave until a little more than two hours later, but he had completed his job in half an hour. Smith has been shearing sheep for 40 years now, learning when he was 14 from his father. He deftly removed the winter coats from seven sheep without breaking a sweat, chatting all the while with the small crowd watching as he held the sheep between his knees and his electric shears in his right hand. With his left hand, he lifted one of the sheep’s legs, then another, straightened out the tail and even flipped the sheep over to make the long back strokes. Watch a video of him at work below.</p>
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