AMMAN — The Ministry of Agriculture is distributing 200 improved Awassi rams to farmers to develop the gene pool of local sheep, an official said recently. Due to increased demand across the region ...

Shortages of raw materials are impacting many sectors of Lebanon’s crisis-ridden economy. But two things it has in abundance are grazing pastures and Awassi sheep. Indigenous to Lebanon, Awassi sheep ...

Preserving a small flock of awassi sheep has given Michael Willis arguably as much pleasure as raising numbers of rare kiwi, kakapo and takahe. Awassis are milking sheep, but his breeding flock of 25 ...

A south-east Queensland livestock farmer has helped the Middle Eastern emirate of Qatar rebuilt its ailing Awassi sheep herd. Awassi are a particular breed of sheep, originally from the Arabian desert ...

George Assaf sounds a wounded and wary note. Wounded, because the Lebanese-born Australian citizen says all he wants to do is create more wealth for New Zealand farmers who receive much less for their ...

In just its second year of operation, the business was forced to cancel bus bookings and private functions, with drop-in customers also turned away as owners Di and David Piggott looked to find ways ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. The operators behind the Awassi Express disaster, in which thousands of sheep died in searing heat ...

Australian maritime authorities have approved the scandal-plagued Awassi Express, the vessel linked to thousands of sheep deaths, to again carry livestock. Maritime officials approve the Awassi ...

A STATE investigation into the Awassi Express voyage, in which 2400 sheep died from heat stress, has been stalled by the Federal Government, which says it can’t hand over relevant documents. As a ...

It is understood the export ship Awassi Express will leave Fremantle in the next few days and probably head to Broome to load cattle to ferry to South-East Asia. The Awassi Express sailed into a storm ...