For winemakers seeking regenerative, biodynamic practices and enhanced fruit flavor, sheep grazing is where the ancient and the innovative converge. From Roman hillside farms to biodynamic Californian ...

A Californian vineyard consultant says wine grape growers should run sheep on their properties to improve the efficiency of their land. Kelly Mulville is touring Australian wine regions to share his ...

Driving up Adobe Road just outside Petaluma, cars slow to catch a glance at dozens of sheep munching their way through vineyards. It's not much of a show, really, but folks stop anyway for a glance or ...

HOPLAND, Calif. — Call them mutton mowers. University researchers are training sheep to clean up vineyard weeds but stay off the grapes. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad ...

A flock of five Suffolk sheep huddled along the eastern edge of a pen in Shelburne Vineyard, too timid to approach the humans waiting for them to notice a new opening in the electric fence. Amid the ...

Cody Wood wanted to be a sheep rancher but found the career hard to break into without money or land, two things the Junction City native didn't have. Then an idea came to him when he saw a California ...

They're woollen, chubby and hungry for grape vines. Rare breed sheep are turning out to be very useful in vineyards. Vigneron Shane Clancy from Killarney in south west Victoria has been running Olde ...

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HOPLAND, Calif. — In the rolling pastures of Mendocino County, several dozen sheep are eating their way into agriculture acclaim. An experiment among vineyards on a university ranch has pretty much ...

HOPLAND — Call them mutton mowers. University researchers are training sheep to clean up vineyard weeds but to stay off the grapes. As enthusiastic and unpicky eaters, sheep are already being used in ...

BRUNSWICK, Md. (AP) — On the River's Edge Trails in Brunswick, behind Brunswick Middle School, an invasive vine called kudzu blankets and drapes the trails and trees. "It looks like Jurassic Park," ...