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July 13, 2007

With a little training, sheep eat weeds, not wine grapes

  • Aversion therapy and other techniques turn sheep into better field hands.
    • By MICHELLE LOCKE
    Associated Press Writer

    AP Photo/University of California Morgan Doran [enlarge]
    Sheep graze in experimental plots at a vineyard in California. Sheep don’t use gasoline, eat weeds with enthusiastic abandon and even come with a handy fertilizer dispenser.

    HOPLAND, Calif. — Call them mutton mowers. University researchers are training sheep to clean up vineyard weeds but stay off the grapes.


     
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