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Date Posted: 20.03.2025

SCOPS Nematodirus Forecast: Essential tool for determining flock risk amid recent warmer weather

The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) Group is once again offering its invaluable Nematodirus Forecast to help farmers, vets and advisers identify when lambs might be at risk...

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Date Posted: 12.03.2025

Xinyi Huang Wins Prestigious Steve Bishop Award for Ground-breaking Bovine Mastitis Detection Research

University of Glasgow and Moredun Research Institute has been awarded the Steve Bishop Award to carry out her project titled ‘Rapid detection of mastitis pathogens in milk via integrated microfluidic-Raman...

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Date Posted: 04.03.2025

Eilidh Geddes Wins at Lantra Scotland’s ALBAS 2025

Eilidh Geddes has been named a winner at Lantra Scotland’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills (the ALBAS), which took place at Crieff Hydro Hotel on Thursday 6 March 2025....

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Date Posted: 25.02.2025

SCOPS encourages farmers to consider their pre-lambing worming treatments this year.

The Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) Group advocates a targeted approach to parasite control in ewes, emphasising the importance of assessing ewe condition and utilising faecal egg counts...

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Date Posted: 12.02.2025

SCOPS and COWS urge use of FECs to manage ongoing liver fluke threat

Within the range of tools available to producers to monitor liver fluke, experts in the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) and Control of Worms Sustainably (COWS) groups are...

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Date Posted: 04.02.2025

SCOPS investigates new tools to help determine worm species on sheep farms

Working with partners Biobest and Queens University Belfast, the Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) group is exploring a method that could provide farmers and their vets and advisers...

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Date Posted: 28.01.2025

SCOPS and COWS encourage care when rotating different products to treat liver fluke Press release

The very limited number of flukicides available to treat cattle and sheep in the UK means it’s essential for farmers, vets and advisers to fully understand their product choices, say...

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Date Posted: 22.01.2025

SCOPS & COWS Press Release: Don’t let incidental rumen fluke egg counts distract from serious...

The inclusion of rumen fluke egg counts on reports provided by laboratories should not detract from important information provided by liver fluke egg counts, say experts in the Sustainable Control...

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Date Posted: 20.12.2024

A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year

Wishing all our members and industry supporters a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year.

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Date Posted: 20.12.2024

Professor Simon Doherty

Moredun colleagues and our Moredun Foundation Regional Advisors were deeply saddened by the death of Professor Simon Doherty. Simon was internationally recognised for his work promoting One Health approaches to...

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