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- ‘Test Don’t Guess’. A too early treatment will not provide any protection for livestock warn SCOPS and COWS.
- ** PRESS RELEASE ** Oral Vaccine Development Provides Sustainable Solution to Combat Salmon Lice in the Aquaculture Industry
- A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year
- A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year
- A new Horizon Europe thematic network to promote sustainable worm control in grazing ruminants
- Animal Health news
- Animal Health newsletter – Winter edition
- Application of new technology to make an affordable anti-parasite vaccine
- Aquaculture News
- Aquaculture news
- BBC Radio 4 ‘Any Questions’ Live from Moredun
- BBSRC and Defra invest in zoonotic livestock disease research
- Biosafety testing – revised compliance statements
- Biosecurity and Roundworm Advice for Cattle Enterprises (BRACE) project
- Bluetongue has been confirmed in a single animal in the UK
- BRACE project (Biosecurity and Roundworm Advice for Cattle Enterprises)
- buyer beware – Avoid bringing in more than you’d bargained for!
- BVA presents outstanding vets with prestigious awards for exceptional achievements
- Cardiomyopathy Syndrome, a significant viral disease of Atlantic salmon
- CIEL | Centre for Innovation Excellence in Livestock – meet the scientist
- Collecting good quality faecal samples from sheep
- Congratulations to Dr Philip Skuce among SRUC Honours recipients
- Congratulations to John Yeomans winner of the ‘Grassland Manager of the Year’ award.
- Connecting Communities and Science to Shape Orkney’s Agricultural Future
- Consultation on Cattle Identification and Traceability in Scotland
- Consultation on Phase 6 of the Bovine Viral Diarrhoea Eradication Scheme is now live
- Control of watery mouth in neonatal lambs in the face of limited supply of Spectam Scour Halt for the 2022 lambing season
- Creating a balance between parasite control and a healthy environment discussed by NSA and Moredun
- DEFRA: Better welfare conditions for millions of farm animals during transit
- DEFRA: Vet Attestation – Requirement for livestock entering the food chain which may be exported to the European Union (EU)
- Development of new rapid diagnostic test to detect multiple pathogens causing bovine respiratory disease complex
- Discovering Novel Tools for Parasite Control in the Poultry Red Mite
- Dr Chris Cousens awarded the NSA Scotland Silver Salver 2023
- Eilidh Geddes Wins at Lantra Scotland’s ALBAS 2025
- Elanco A2K event, 17th Sept 2021
- Enhanced Online Tool for Cattle Faecal Egg Counts
- Equine Grass Sickness Project: A fresh approach to an old disease
- Experts Gather to Discuss the Role of Livestock Production in Future Food Security
- Farmers flock to Monitor Farm Scotland meeting to get hands-on with tech
- Farmers show keen interest in a NI Sheep Scab control programme
- Farmers urged to beware, take action and be vigilant for new strain of Bluetongue virus
- FEC Check: Understanding sheep roundworm egg count results at a glance
- Food for Thought – an online resource for SEFARI livestock research
- Funding announced to support Scotland’s animal health, aquaculture and agritech sector
- Further bluetongue cases confirmed
- Future Anthelmintic Resistance Messages (FARM); How do we communicate more efficiently?
- GLP certification for Aquaculture Studies
- Grass sickness at the National Equine Forum
- Grouse moor owner pledges £250,000 to louping ill vaccine campaign in match funding challenge
- Haemonchus Contortus in the UK
- Hannah Dairy Research Foundation awards three new research grants
- Help with a survey looking at Foodborne pathogens on livestock farms
- Help with Poultry red mites
- HELP with Sheep scab survey
- Help with Sheep worm questionnaire
- Help with study on veterinary medicine usage to improve animal performance and efficiency.
- Highly regarded Scottish sheep farmer Ian Duncan Millar recognised by prestigious NSA award
- Honorary Fellowships for Beth Wells, Kate Richards and Sir Muir Russell
- Honorary Fellowships for Colin Burnett, Elisabeth Innes and Matthew Colston
- Honorary Fellowships for Julie Fitzpatrick and Randolph Richards
- Honorary Fellowships for Nigel Miller, Elspeth Milne and Bridget Taylor
- Increased Capacity for Mycoplasma Testing at Moredun Scientific
- Information for Farmers/Owners and Vets for sheep/goat exports from the UK CVO and Welsh DCVO
- International Thoroughbred Breeders Federation (ITBF) Webinar featuring Equine grass sickness
- Jim Stobo CBE, DL, FRAgS: 1934-2023
- JOB VACANCY – Director of Moredun Research Institute & CEO of Moredun Group
- John Scott received an OBE in the New Years Honours 2022 Honours list
- Join us! Moredun Student Membership only £10 per year
- Latest bluetongue virus update
- Levy bodies unite to control liver fluke
- Liver Fluke – Treating livestock early this autumn is not an insurance policy against infection, warn SCOPS and COWS groups
- Liver fluke risk and agri-environment schemes – promoting livestock health and biodiversity
- Liver fluke study on Islay
- Livestock health webinar from Moredun and Harper Adams replaces our annual workshop at Harper Adams
- Louping Ill Vaccine Update – June 2023
- Making Sheep Systems Sustainable: Controlling Liver Fluke
- Meet Chris Cousens – International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Meet Fi Kenyon and Jade Duncan – International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Meet Kim Thompson and Jo Moore – International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Meet Moredun Scientific at Aqua Nor 2023
- Meet Moredun Scientific at Aquaculture Europe 2023
- Meet Moredun’s new Head of Business Development
- Meet Saniya Crouch and Tanith Harte – International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Meet Xuhang Wu and Eleanor Watson – International Day of Women and Girls in Science
- Moredun ‘host’ Ruminant Health & Welfare Group, Tues 22nd Feb 2022
- Moredun & NSA webinar: Sheep vaccines, what’s current and what’s coming
- Moredun & NSA webinar: Tick control and louping ill
- Moredun and James Hutton Institutes combine forces for Science in Shetland
- Moredun and NSA seal another partnership agreement for the next three years
- Moredun announces new Scientific Director and CEO
- Moredun Awarded Grant to Develop New Vaccines for Bovine Respiratory Disease
- Moredun confirms continuity of worm resistance testing ahead of NSA Sheep Event
- Moredun is deeply saddened by the death of Dr David Smith
- Moredun is deeply saddened to hear of the death Dr Hugh Reid
- Moredun is deeply saddened to hear of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
- Moredun joins newly launched National Research Organisations Group
- Moredun leads a £220,000 Sheep Scab Control Project in Northern Ireland
- Moredun Nominated for Place-based Impact Award
- Moredun opens upgraded High Security Unit to support research to protect animal and public health
- Moredun represented at Aquaculture UK
- Moredun Research Institute awarded £1.2M grant to tackle resistance to sheep scab treatments
- Moredun Research Institute joins National Research Organisations, a new UK-wide research alliance
- Moredun Scientific – Animal Health News
- Moredun Scientific Animal Health News
- Moredun Scientific Aquaculture News
- Moredun Scientific Complete Streptococcus suis Vaccine Research Project
- Moredun Scientific Update – Gill Health Research
- Moredun Scientific Welcomes New Company Chair
- Moredun Scientific, in collaboration with Intervacc, awarded prestigious Eurostars grant to advance a new prototype vaccine against Streptococcus suis infection in pigs
- Moredun scientists fighting sheep scab across the four nations of the UK
- Moredun to Lead a £6M Collaborative Project to Develop a Novel Parasite Vaccine for Sheep
- Moredun vaccine commercialisation secures £450k DEFRA funding as part of a major tick-borne disease research project
- Moredun welcomes Dr Anita Jaglarz as new Head of Aquaculture Research Group
- Moredun-led Sheep Scab Control Programme Highly Commended in Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards
- Moredun’s Louping-Ill Vaccine Campaign Featured on BBC Scotland’s Landward Programme
- Moredun’s Sheep Scab expert to address key Sheep Health event in Co Down
- Moredun’s participation in The NeoGiANT project
- New Chair for Midlothian Science Zone
- New Head of Virus Surveillance Unit at Moredun
- New Moredun Foundation Regional Board in Northern Ireland
- New pilot project to control OPA in sheep
- New Podcast launches today: Equine Grass Sickness: updating The Moredun’s search for a cure
- New podcast on Sheep scab ‘top of the agenda’ from OnFarm
- New President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS)
- New project to optimise wormer use in sheep funded
- New report published on the risk of STEC contamination in wild venison
- New study shows restored peatlands safe for grazing – but testing is key
- New study: How healthy animals could combat the climate crisis
- New video showing life cycle of liver fluke
- New welfare strategy launched by the UK sheep industry
- Next generation DATA-LED Dairying Conference announced for 18th-19th Nov 2024
- NI farming community urges Agricultural Committee to take ‘direct and urgent action’ to tackle sheep scab
- Now is the time to start faecal egg counts (FECs) on February and March-born lambs, says SCOPS
- NSA and Moredun work together to support UK sheep farmers
- OPTICK – Survey on ticks and tick-borne diseases in UK farmlands
- Parasitologists on tour
- Pig studies support ongoing Covid-19 research
- Podcast – AHDB Beef & Lamb: Managing and controlling liver fluke this autumn
- Practical advice issued for users of the SCOPS Nematodirus Forecast
- PRESS RELEASE – Groundbreaking Malignant Catarrhal Fever vaccine technology heading to South Africa
- Press Release – Sheep scab management: a community-based regional approach in England
- PRESS RELEASE — Moredun and ECO Animal Health Ltd to tackle poultry red mite together
- PRESS RELEASE: ‘Social distancing’ in sheep could cure flock of maedi-visna
- PRESS RELEASE: £0.56M grant awarded to tackle one of the world’s most common parasites
- Press Release: £1.1M Funding to Develop Genetic Solutions for Maedi-Visna in Sheep
- Press Release: A new louping ill vaccine – can you help us bring a new vaccine to market?
- PRESS RELEASE: Collaboration is the way forward for equine grass sickness research
- PRESS RELEASE: Donation from Blackface Sheep Breeders Association to support Moredun’s research into diseases of sheep
- PRESS RELEASE: Equine Grass Sickness Research Crucible – Scientists gather to solve a 100 year mystery
- Press Release: Exciting development in Equine Grass Sickness case reporting
- Press release: Experts Convene to Discuss the Role of Livestock Production in Future Food Security HRH The Princess Royal Attends to Highlight the Event’s Importance
- PRESS RELEASE: For Flocks Sake – Let’s Stop Scab Together
- PRESS RELEASE: Get Sm@RT with small ruminant farming
- PRESS RELEASE: Honorary Fellowships for Gareth Jones and William Stewart
- PRESS RELEASE: HRH The Princess Royal supports new research Fellowship to investigate Equine Grass Sickness
- Press release: HRH The Princess Royal Visits Moredun Research Institute to Learn About Emerging Livestock Diseases Linked to Climate Change
- PRESS RELEASE: Interdisciplinary collaboration leads to new early sheep scab test
- PRESS RELEASE: Moredun and RSABI to support their charity work through Livestock Keepers book
- Press Release: New report launched on potential interventions to tackle foodborne pathogens on livestock farms
- PRESS RELEASE: New research into novel vaccines against ovine enzootic abortion
- PRESS RELEASE: New studentship at Moredun will work with farmers to investigate sheep parasite control
- PRESS RELEASE: Novel study of poultry red mites awarded key funding
- PRESS RELEASE: NSA and Moredun work together to support UK sheep farmers
- PRESS RELEASE: Professor Julie Fitzpatrick New Chief Scientific Adviser for Scotland
- PRESS RELEASE: Research consortium receives funding for Smart Sheep project
- PRESS RELEASE: Ruminant Health & Welfare launch report highlighting immediate gains of ruminant health on methane emissions
- PRESS RELEASE: SCOPS urges sheep farmers to ‘safeguard their valuables’
- PRESS RELEASE: Sheep and goat Sm@rt project on tour to France
- PRESS RELEASE: Stop the Creeps on Sheep! New animation out now.
- PRESS RELEASE: Tackling Toxoplasmosis: A new animated film about the world’s most successful parasite
- PRESS RELEASE: Test Don’t Guess: A fun way to learn about parasite monitoring to improve livestock performance!
- PRESS RELEASE: The Princess Royal visits Moredun for new developments in livestock health contributing to sustainable agriculture
- PRESS RELEASE: The Princess Royal visits Moredun to celebrate 100 years of excellence in animal health research
- PRESS RELEASE: The Princess Royal visits Moredun to hear how story telling can help to communicate science
- PRESS RELEASE: Using mini-stomachs to help understanding of how parasites survive in cattle stomachs
- Professor Simon Doherty
- Promising results for a new vaccine for louping ill control
- Protecting against parasites – Scotland’s Farm Advisory Service
- QMS Monitor Farm Group visit Moredun
- Red squirrel goals set out by experts
- Representatives from Scottish islands meet in Inverness to discuss animal disease control
- REPRODIVAC: Next – generation vaccines and diagnostics to prevent livestock reproductive diseases of worldwide impact
- Research events mark Moredun and Roslin partnership
- Research findings ‘Tip of the iceberg’ in tackling sheep scab in Northern Ireland
- RHASS Announces Winners of 2023 Technical Innovation Awards
- Rosie Stewart Appointed Finance Director and Company Secretary at the Moredun Group
- Roundworm transmission in farmed UK ruminants
- Royal Highland Show celebrates 200th anniversary with a Grass Sickness Survivors Parade
- Rural reflections on the Covid pandemic
- SCOPS – Later-born lambs and northern facing slopes at greatest risk in very different nematodirus year
- SCOPS – No need for ‘knee jerk’ reaction when triple wormer resistance is found on sheep farms
- SCOPS & COWS – Warning to cattle and sheep farmers to not let liver fluke catch them out
- SCOPS & COWS post: Warning for sheep and cattle producers not to get caught out by ‘later than normal’ liver fluke challenge
- SCOPS & COWS Press Release: ‘Test, don’t guess’ approach to liver fluke essential in ‘funny old year’ of 2023
- SCOPS & COWS PRESS RELEASE: Bluetongue virus (BTV): clear advice on insecticides, OP dips and midge control
- SCOPS & COWS Press Release: Don’t let incidental rumen fluke egg counts distract from serious threat of liver fluke
- SCOPS & COWS PRESS RELEASE: Don’t overreact to rumen fluke figures in FEC results, urge cattle and sheep industry experts
- SCOPS & COWS PRESS RELEASE: Farmers urged to test for liver fluke in an autumn and winter that could be ‘very different’ to recent years
- SCOPS & COWS PRESS RELEASE: On-the-ground evidence adds weight to SCOPS-COWS warnings of higher risk liver fluke season
- SCOPS and COWS encourage care when rotating different products to treat liver fluke Press release
- SCOPS and COWS urge sheep and cattle producers to remain vigilant as liver fluke risk extends into Spring 2025
- SCOPS and COWS urge use of FECs to manage ongoing liver fluke threat
- SCOPS and COWS warn grazing livestock may still be at risk from liver fluke this winter
- SCOPS encourages farmers to consider their pre-lambing worming treatments this year.
- SCOPS encourages sheep farmers to take practical steps to reduce wormer use this lambing season
- SCOPS Fluke warning for cattle and sheep farmers as range of treatment options reduces
- SCOPS highlights APHA special offer on haemonchus testing
- SCOPS investigates new tools to help determine worm species on sheep farms
- SCOPS Keep your guard up against liver fluke this winter, warn industry experts
- SCOPS launches 2020 Technical Manual update
- SCOPS launches 2nd series of podcast
- SCOPS launches Blowfly Emergence Forecast to help sheep farmers stay ahead of flystrike risk
- SCOPS launches Code of Practice to ensure safe and effective sheep dipping
- SCOPS launches new podcast series
- SCOPS Nematodirus Forecast
- SCOPS Nematodirus Forecast
- SCOPS Nematodirus Forecast gives confidence in low-risk year
- SCOPS Nematodirus Forecast is now live
- SCOPS Nematodirus Forecast: Essential tool for determining flock risk amid recent warmer weather
- SCOPS podcast returns with season 3 – kicking off with a focus on haemonchus
- SCOPS post – Cold snaps haven’t been enough to remove fluke risk for cattle and sheep, warn industry experts
- SCOPS PRESS RELEASE: Be alert to haemonchus risk – and utilise free testing where appropriate
- SCOPS PRESS RELEASE: Free online parasite forecast available to UK sheep farmers
- SCOPS Press Release: Liver Fluke – Using antibody testing to decide if and when to treat sheep in the autumn and early winter
- SCOPS Press Release: Nematodirus Update as new podcast goes live
- SCOPS Press Release: Time your Group 4 and 5 wormers right this season
- SCOPS Quarantine advice for internal and external parasites
- SCOPS updates widely-used tool for sheep producers
- SCOPS urges care with dose rates when using products containing closantel
- SCOPS urges farmers to use faecal egg counts and monitor lamb performance following recent rainfall
- SCOPS urges producers to carefully consider which ewes to worm this lambing time
- SCOPS urges sheep farmers to consider reducing number of ewes wormed at lambing time
- SCOPS urges sheep farmers to keep monitoring worm burdens in lambs
- SCOPS urges vigilance as recent wet weather increases parasite risk in lambs
- SCOPS webinars to provide real-world advice on checking if a worming treatment has been effective
- SCOPS: Nematodirus Hatching Forecast 2026 goes live
- SCOPS: Think it’s Haemonchus? Don’t panic – test first to be sure.
- SCOPS:Quarantine protocols crucial as autumn sales ramp up
- SCOPS:Updates to cross-industry Code of Practice provide clarity for sheep dippers, farmers, and prescribers
- Scottish farmers sought to aid OPA pilot project
- Scottish Government Announce Match Funding to Support Moredun’s Louping Ill Vaccine: Industry Backing Needed
- Seasonally vector low period announced for bluetongue
- SEFARI Education Booklet 2024
- Senesino’s ‘Numnuts’ wins chance to work with Tesco supply chain
- Sheep industry experts stand together to urge action now
- Sheep Scab Project Led by Moredun Forges Ahead
- Sheep worrying – Dog Owners guidance
- Sir James Armour CBE (1929-2021)
- SOAS award Gareth Baird Moredun Foundation chairman with the Ed Rainy Brown Award
- Spring 2026 highlights why Nematodirus should not be treated by the calendar
- Streptococcus suis challenge model
- Tackling endemic disease can be key in combating climate emissions
- Testing this winter is the key to liver fluke control, say industry experts
- The RHASS Presidents’ Initiative for 2023
- The Sheep Veterinary Society (SVS) and Sheep Antibiotic Guardian Group (SAGG) issues guidance to sheep farmers in response to discontinuation of watery mouth treatment
- The TechCare project hosts partners in Glasgow!
- Three further cases of bluetongue virus BTV3 have been confirmed. The Temporary Control Zone has been extended
- Tick Survey Recruitment
- Tick-transmitted diseases in dogs – Can you help us?
- UK farmer survey launched to understand on-farm impact from bluetongue
- UK research institutions unite to advance non-animal technologies for veterinary research
- University of Dundee and Moredun Scientific – a step in the right direction for treatment of Cryptosporidiosis
- Update – Moredun’s participation in The NeoGiANT project
- Update on community led sheep scab control project in England funded by DEFRA
- Visit to Moredun by the Cabinet Secretary for Transport, Net Zero & Just Transition, Ms Màiri McAllan MSP
- Wales Veterinary Science Centre and Moredun Research Institute – Sheep Scab ELISA Update
- Welcome to the Sm@RT newsletter!
- Worm tolerant sheep: breeding our way to reduced reliance on wormers
- Xinyi Huang Wins Prestigious Steve Bishop Award for Ground-breaking Bovine Mastitis Detection Research
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