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Date Posted: 28.11.2022

PRESS RELEASE: Donation from Blackface Sheep Breeders Association to support Moredun’s research into diseases of...

Moredun Research Institute were delighted to receive a donation of £2000 from the Blackface Sheep Breeders Association in support of their research into finding solutions to combat diseases of sheep....

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Date Posted: 25.11.2022

SCOPS urges sheep farmers to keep monitoring worm burdens in lambs

The dry summer and mild, wet autumn of 2022 has resulted in a high worm challenge on many farms, with reports from around the UK of lambs suffering from the...

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Date Posted: 04.11.2022

PRESS RELEASE: The Princess Royal visits Moredun to hear how story telling can help to...

Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal attended a special event held today (Friday 4th November) at the Moredun Foundation, Pentlands Science Park to hear about how storytelling techniques can be...

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Date Posted: 20.10.2022

Podcast – AHDB Beef & Lamb: Managing and controlling liver fluke this autumn

In this podcast episode, Dr Bethan John Animal Health & Welfare Scientist at AHDB, speaks to Dr Philip Skuce from Moredun Research Institute in Scotland to talk about Liver fluke...

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Date Posted: 10.10.2022

The TechCare project hosts partners in Glasgow!

TechCare is a European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation project (grant no. 802050), involving nine countries – from Scandinavia to the Middle East –aiming to revolutionise the use of...

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Date Posted: 30.09.2022

Levy bodies unite to control liver fluke

This autumn sees the launch of a new manual to help farmers control liver fluke in grazing livestock, in a joint levy-body effort to control what can be a devastating...

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Date Posted: 09.09.2022

Moredun is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II

The Queen had a strong connection to the countryside and in particular her interest in farming and rural life. She visited Moredun in 1982, on a beautiful sunny day, to...

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Date Posted: 02.08.2022

PRESS RELEASE: Sheep and goat Sm@rt project on tour to France

An SRUC-led multinational project to improve the uptake of digital technologies in sheep and goat farming has held its first in-person transnational workshop in France. Around 70 researchers, farmers, lecturers...

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Date Posted: 01.08.2022

SCOPS PRESS RELEASE: Be alert to haemonchus risk – and utilise free testing where appropriate

SCOPS is warning producers to be alert to ewes and lambs being hit by the Haemonchus contortus worm – a tropical/sub-tropical worm that is increasingly prevalent in the UK as...

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Date Posted: 09.07.2022

Parasitologists on tour

We were finally let loose with the Bio Bus earlier in the summer to take part in an on-farm event in Cumbria. It was a joint effort with Elanco Animal...

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