New Zealand shearer Rowland Smith on his way to winning a second world individual shearing championship at the 2026 Golden Shears in Masterton. Photo / Golden Shears
New Zealand shearer Rowland Smith on his way to winning a second world individual shearing championship at the 2026 Golden Shears in Masterton. Photo / Golden Shears
Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with “the first couple of New Zealand shearing” – newly crowned 2026 World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships machine shearing open final winner, Rowland Smith, and his wife, world-record shearer, businesswoman and social media guru Ingrid Smith.
On with theshow:
Rowland Smith and Ingrid Smith:
Are they the First Couple of New Zealand shearing?
He may be the winner of the world shearing championship at the Golden Shears in Masterton, but Rowland wasn’t the only Smith in the limelight over the weekend – his shearer wife, Ingrid, along with her mother and father, Colin and Margaret Baynes, featured on Country Calendar.
