The designer of an award winning sheep shearing shed says he has solved the problem of shearers having to work in hot conditions, in a move which lifts productivity by up to a third. Architect Peter ...

Wifi internet, air-conditioning, onsite tearooms and separate bathrooms... these aren't the shearing sheds of your grandfather's day.

Feedback mentions the Ig Nobel prize awarded for an Australian paper on the best surface for dragging sheep to be sheared (11 October). Sheep are dragged on their rumps, not with a rope round their ...