Resilience of UK grazing livestock systems – policy and practice brief launch

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The GFS FSR Programme has launched a new policy and practice brief that recommends actions for enhancing the resilience of grazing livestock systems.

Liver fluke – present, absent or resistant

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Many farmers assume they have liver fluke (both beef and sheep) due to boggy or wet nature of their land and the rainfall/climate, but have never actually done any testing, post mortem examinations or had abattoir feedback to confirm this.

Liverfluke and climate change are a toxic combination

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Liverfluke are a familiar feature to producers of upland sheep and beef cattle. These parasites are particularly common with warm, wet weather – the type of weather that may increase with climate change.

Food Shopping and Covid-19

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Many of us have all been thinking a lot more about food shopping. It has become a much less mundane and much more fraught activity.

Droving – the connections formed between people and animals

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Pippa Goldschmidt looks at this practice of leading livestock by foot across long distances from individual farms to auctions and slaughterhouses.

Why are some upland farms more financially resilient than others?

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Andrew Barnes in our team has collected financial data from upland farms with a view to identifying characteristics of disadvantage that make farms more or less vulnerable. The findings are fascinating, if in some ways counter-intuitive.

The Great Yorkshire Show

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As summer continues, show season is well and truly under way and last week saw the 161st Great Yorkshire Show take place in Harrogate.

Reflecting on Resilience

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Project update from Ann Bruce – May 2019 Now that lambing and calving are all but over, it feels like the right time to...   Read More

Lessons to be learned for our communities

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There has been talk in recent years of the need to develop an upland vision for Scotland. But without also ensuring greater government and agency support for establishing locally-led partnerships it might prove difficult to achieve any such vision in practice.

What We Have Learned So Far Using Social Network Analysis

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This blog will summarise what we have learned so far using social network analysis with the ReSULTS project.

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