The event, which will be run across two afternoons in January, will present results from across a number of SRUC research groups, bringing together new knowledge on health, welfare, climate resilience and breeding strategies to meet new challenges associated with climate change and the changing political landscape for sheep production in Scotland.
The first session on January 18th will focus on:
- new strategies for health management, including the issues of anthelmintic and antimicrobial resistance and chronic iceberg diseases
- neonatal lamb management, considering maternal behaviour, castration and unexplained lamb losses
The second session on January 19th will focus on:
- climate resilience, exploring the best breeding and management strategies to reduce the impact of sheep on climate change and vice versa
- new breeding goals, assessing new traits for genetic and genomic selection to improve profitability and sustainability of sheep systems
If you have an interest in the future direction of the Scottish sheep industry, please join us for this event, to hear about the latest research findings and to discuss the next steps for implementation of this research into practice, to benefit stakeholders across the sector
