Events

NSA Event Reports

20th January 2021 NSA Breakfast Club - Forging ahead: a morning meeting with Defra's Victoria Prentis Time: 8.30am Location: Online - zoom webinar This webinar is the first of NSA's Breakfast Club series. Join Minister Victoria Prentis, NSA Chairman Bryan Griffiths, and NSA Chief Executive Phil Stocker to discuss the future of UK agriculture and the UK sheep industry. Minister Prentis will present DEFRA’s vision for the future of UK sheep farming and trade, before the discussion moves to consider ELMS and the Agricultural Transition plan. Read More NSA Breakfast Club - Forging ahead: a morning meeting with Defra's Victoria Prentis Read More
13th January 2021 NSA Scottish Region Annual Members Meeting 2021 Time: 7pm Location: Online On Wednesday 13 January 2021, NSA Scotland held its Annual Regional Members Meetings (ARMM) via the online meeting platform ‘Zoom’. This meeting attracted a much larger audience than in previous years, which can be attributed to the virtual event easing attendance from such a large regional land area. Read More NSA Scottish Region Annual Members Meeting 2021 Read More
11th December 2020 NSA South West Region talk from Neil Parish MP, EFRA committee chair Time: 2pm Location: Online - zoom meeting On Friday 11th December 2020 NSA South West members took part in a lively discussion with Neil Parish, MP for Tiverton and Honiton and chair of the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Select Committee.  NSA South West Regional Manager Ian May comments: "The meeting provided those present with an opportunity to discuss a wide variety of the issues we're all currently battling with. Read More NSA South West Region talk from Neil Parish MP, EFRA committee chair Read More
2nd December 2020 NSA Marches Region Annual Members Meeting 2020/21 Time: 7pm Location: Zoom meeting NSA Marches Region held its Annual Regional Members Meetings (ARMM) in early December via the online meeting platform ‘Zoom’. The meeting attracted a larger than usual audience, perhaps enjoying the comfort of their own homes, who re-elected and approved the regional committee of Ant Spencer as Regional Chairman, Richard Vines as Regional Vice Chairman, Mike Credland as Regional Treasurer and Henry Dunn as Regional Trustee. Read More NSA Marches Region Annual Members Meeting 2020/21 Read More
24th November 2020 Sheep Health and Welfare Group (SHAWG) conference - Online Location: Online webinar On Tuesday 24th of November, the last ever SHAWG conference was held for the first time virtually. Charles Sercombe welcomed everyone, highlighting the purpose of this event in working together to promote and continue to build on improved sheep health and welfare in the UK. Read More Sheep Health and Welfare Group (SHAWG) conference - Online Read More
17th November 2020 The impact of Brexit on the UK's breed societies webinar Time: 2pm Location: Webinar NSA hosted on behalf of pedigree livestock breed societies in the UK, and supported by Defra a webinar discussing Britain’s final departure from the EU, its impact on livestock breed societies, and future trade in breeding stock in November 2020. With such important topics to be discussed the webinar attracted a large audience and generated many questions to be answered to allow livestock owners to prepare themselves for the UK's departure from the EU. Read More The impact of Brexit on the UK's breed societies webinar Read More
28th October 2020 NSA Eastern Region Annual Members Meeting 2020/2021 Time: 6pm Location: Online Notice is hereby given that the Annual Regional Members’ meeting for NSA Eastern Region will be held on Wednesday 28th October at 6pm via Zoom online conference to transact the following business: 1. Election / re-approval of the Chairman, Vice Chairman and Treasurer 2. Read More NSA Eastern Region Annual Members Meeting 2020/2021 Read More
20th October 2020 - 21st October 2020 NSA Virtual Celebration of Sheep Farming - Feeding the flock, and getting it right!! Time: 9am Location: Online Following the successful launch of our Virtual celebrations of sheep farming series in August, our second online offering will take place on Tuesday20th and Wednesday 21st October. NSA will be joined by an impressive line up of sheep industry experts to deliver an even greater webinar programme with many of the webinars focussing on sheep nutrition fitting with the two day theme of 'Feeding the flock - and getting it right'. Read More NSA Virtual Celebration of Sheep Farming - Feeding the flock, and getting it right!! Read More
18th September 2020 NSA Eastern Region Melton Mowbray Ram Sale Time: 9am Location: Melton Mowbray Market, Scalford Road, Melton Mowbray, LE13 1JY Flying Trade at 35th NSA Ram Sale at Melton Numbers sold, averages and top prices were all up at the 35th Annual Ram Sale organised by the National Sheep Association Eastern Region hosted by Melton Mowbray Market on Friday (18th September 2020).  Leading the way was an excellent pen of Texel shearling rams from Philip Weaver, Caunton, Newark. Read More NSA Eastern Region Melton Mowbray Ram Sale Read More
16th September 2020 NSA Marches Region 'Cotswold Seeds and FarmEd' farm walk Time: 4.30pm Location: Honeydale Farm, Shipton Under Wychwood, Chipping Norton, Oxon, OX7 6BJ NSA Marches Region was pleased to be able to continue with a long-awaited visit to Cotswold Seed’s new FarmEd visitor site on Wednesday 16th September. Despite current Covid-19 guidelines restricting some gatherings once again, advice was given that the visit could proceed as a business event but with limited numbers. Read More NSA Marches Region 'Cotswold Seeds and FarmEd' farm walk Read More