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Nerys Wright is an independent sheep consultant who loves talking about parasites and body condition score. Liz Genever is an independent sheep consultant who loves talking about grass, forage and soil, and body condition score. Together they are the sheep geeks. This podcast series launched October 2024. Liz and Nerys will be interviewing a range of sheep farmers, consultants, vets and academics from the UK and any other countries who have sheep.
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Episode 6: Talking to Dave Cross about his farming system in Norfolk and a bit about chickens
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Dave Cross is a mixed farmer in Norfolk with sheep, beef, arable and layers. He farms within a family partnership. He has been very strategic with the use of sustainable farming incentive (SFI) to transform their arable fields into lanes of herbal leys. He has been an AHDB monitor farm for the last four years. In this podcast we talk about the chan…
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Episode 5: Talking to Dr Suzanne Rowe about breeding for reduced methane production
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Dr Suzanne Rowe is a geneticist at AgResearch in New Zealand, and is passionate about improving profitability and sustainability of global livestock systems using genomic technology. She presented at Sheep Breeders Round Table in November 2024 on breeding for methane reduction in sheep. In this podcast she talks about the work that is being done on…
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Episode 4: Talking to Dr Fiona Lovatt about protecting young lambs from watery mouth
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Dr Fiona Lovatt is a vet and consultant, and founder of Flock Health Limited. She has been heavily involved in reducing antibiotic use in the sheep sector. She is passionate about improving the relationship between farmers and their vets. In this podcast she talks about a project she did with NoBacz Navel - a non-antibiotic barrier. It was compared…
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Episode 3: Talking to Michael Blanche about lean management, sheep and lots of random things
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Michael Blanche is a sheep and cattle farmer from Perth in Scotland. He is also the genius behind the Pasture Pod podcast. We talk about how he is trying to build lean management techniques into his daily habits to target his weaker areas - organisation and order!! He is passionate about low input systems and he talks us through the areas he focuse…
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Episode 2: Talking to Katie Evans about sheep and other things from her trip to Oz
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Katie Evans is a sheep and beef farmer from Norfolk. She was sponsored to attended the Global Sheep Forum's Next Gen programme and has recently returned from a trip to Australia. We talked through the best bits of the trip and also a bit about her system at home. Bear with us, we are still warming up to this podcast life. Links: https://www.globals…
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Welcome to the launch of the Sheep Geeks podcast with Nerys Wright and Liz Genever. There are both independent sheep consultants, and work with sheep farmers in the UK. Nerys likes talking about parasites and body condition score, and Liz likes talking about grass and forage, and soil. This launch podcast introduces Liz and Nerys. In future episode…
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