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🐑 🇳🇴Throwback Thursday: Impressions of a French sheep farmer at the Transnational Workshop in Norway youtube.com/watch?v=0PzltT… @NIBIO_no Horizon 2020 #Norway #Sheep #Goats #NorwegianSheep #SmartFarming #PLF

Any cloud breaks tonight, and more so tomorrow night, will bring a good chance to see the #aurora across northern Scotland, and potentially as far south as northern England and Northern Ireland Check out the Met Office Space Weather forecast here 👇 t.ly/9l5Og

Interested in learning more about implementing technology on meat sheep farms? Come along to our H2020-smart event at Moredun Research Institute on the 14th of November! Get your tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/technology-i… The Moredun Foundation Fi Kenyon

🐑🐐 Throwback Thursday: Impressions of a 🇬🇧UK sheep farmer at the Sm@RT Transnational Workshop in Norway, June 2023 youtube.com/watch?v=gf95e6… @NIBIO_no Horizon 2020 #Norway #Sheep #Goats #NorwegianSheep #SmartFarming #PLF

What we’ve learned so far at the Covid inquiry (turns out the Tories are terrible). With @GavinEsler

🇬🇧🐑Showcase Monday: Sm@RT UK's Dr Claire Morgan-Davies talks about the practical benefits of data use for sheep management media.ed.ac.uk/media/1_ye2jve… #UK #Scotland #UKSheep #ScottishSheep #Sheep #SmartFarming #PLF #SmallRuminants @ConsultingSAC SRUC The Moredun Foundation Horizon 2020

Looking to do a PhD? Join our lovely research team Inst of Infection Veterinary & Ecological Sciences! BBSRC Newcastle Liverpool Durham DTP PhD studentship on the sustainable control of parasites in ewes - with Dr John Graham-Brown, Dr Jennifer Duncan and @FECPAKG2 findaphd.com/phds/project/b…

As Howemill highlights well, being aware of & prepared for the direction of travel is essential. The need for farmers & crofters to do more to mitigate climate change & improve biodiversity - which will also make their farms/crofts more resilient - is not going to go away.

📢📢📢Calling all farm vets! There is a technical webinar about BTV3 current situation - this Wednesday at 5pm - go to ahdb.org.uk/events/blueton… Hear the latest from Joe Henry, Sheep Veterinary Soc, Vanessa Swinson APHA cattle lead & BTV expert Peter Merten from University of Nottingham Vet School

This looks like a cracking job: part monitoring animals in the field, part developing statistical and mathematical models of sheep-worm interactions! All as part of a great team as well...

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Come join us for a great opportunity working with a great group of people! TechCare @h2020smart

"Instead of making decisions around how you make profit, just focus on colleagues being really happy." Timpson boss James Timpson talks to Krishnan Guru-Murthy about "upside-down management” and why giving employees more control can make a business more money. youtube.com/watch?v=W2jRUq…

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Sm@rt farmer Rein Mirka: True Test stick reader & 🐑 EID weight crate (Estonian 🇪🇪) youtube.com/watch?v=G8oVWr… #Estonia #EstonianSheep #Sheep #SmartFarming #PLF #SmallRuminants SRUC @ConsultingSAC The Moredun Foundation @Teagasc TeagascSheep Sheep Ireland 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Institut de l'élevage - Idele Idele - Capteurs-Equipements-Bâtiments

Still accepting posters for this workshop. Register before 10th of June.

Awesome opportunity and a really exciting project, come and join us!

Day 1 of EU project H2020-smart final seminar in Scotland. More than 100 delegates from 8 countries. Visit to SRUC CT scan unit with Portable Accumulation Chambers & morning & lunch hosted by The Moredun Foundation.Idele - Capteurs-Equipements-Bâtiments TeagascSheep @NIBIO_no

Day 1 of H2020-smart- great visit of Innovis Ltd farm in Southfield! How to use tech for sheep breeding. SRUC The Moredun Foundation Idele - Capteurs-Equipements-Bâtiments Institut de l'élevage - Idele @NIBIO_no TeagascSheep