AFTER SEVERAL successful years of working together, the National Sheep Association and the Moredun Research Institute have announced that their relationship is to continue for another year.

NSA operations director Joanne Briggs explained: “NSA has made a financial contribution to Moredun for a number of years, in recognition of the invaluable scientific work it does for the sheep sector. We are incredibly lucky to have a research body such as Moredun operating within the UK, with globally recognised vaccines, diagnostic tests and treatment protocols being developed on our doorstep and therefore value our relationship with them, and what this offers our NSA members, very much.”

All NSA members become associate members of Moredun when they sign up, receiving benefits that include access to the Moredun Members Portal on its website, where useful factsheets on sheep health and disease can be downloaded.

Moving forward, NSA members will also be able to benefit from increased work between the two organisations, holding talks and workshops across NSA’s UK regions, inviting members to join them to get hands-on practical advice on flock health, and providing the opportunity to hear more about the groundbreaking research work carried out by Moredun.

Director of communication at Moredun, Lee Innes, said: “We are delighted to be working together with the NSA to strengthen our collaborative partnership and to help ensure that the new technologies being developed by Moredun to improve the health and welfare of sheep are bringing benefits to the sheep industry."