Farmers Eye Revolutionary Jab Amid Shearing Shortage

David Rowbottom shears a sheep during spring shearing at Cherry Hill Pastoral Company property in Uralla, Australia, on Oct. 19, 2009. Mark Kolbe/Getty Images

Technology that could revolutionise the wool industry could be available to Australian sheep producers within the next five years.

The method, which could eventually provide an alternative to shearing, involves injecting the sheep so that its fleece can then be broken off.