NSA Event Reports

16^th June 2022 NSA South East Region Field Day - Kent Time: 10.00am Location: Springfield Farm, Waltham, Canterbury, Kent, CT4 5QB NSA South East Region is looking forward to welcoming members, friends and neighbours to a series of interactive field days this June providing advice and plentiful opportunity for discussion about flock health and wellbeing. Each Field Day event with the aid of major industry sponsors will address and demonstrate best practice concerning the issue of flock health and welfare from efficient stock handling and data collection to parasite management and disease prevention. Read More

15^th June 2022 NSA South East Region Field Day - Hampshire Time: 10.00am Location: Rothercombe Farm, Stroud, Petersfield, Hampshire, GU32 3PQ NSA South East Region is looking forward to welcoming members, friends and neighbours to a series of interactive field days this June providing advice and plentiful opportunity for discussion about flock health and wellbeing. Each Field Day event with the aid of major industry sponsors will address and demonstrate best practice concerning the issue of flock health and welfare from efficient stock handling and data collection to parasite management and disease prevention. Read More

14^th June 2022 NSA South East Region Field Day - Oxfordshire Time: 10.00am Location: Model Farm, Charlbury, Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, OX7 4EZ NSA South East Region is looking forward to welcoming members, friends and neighbours to a series of interactive field days this June providing advice and plentiful opportunity for discussion about flock health and wellbeing. Each Field Day event with the aid of major industry sponsors will address and demonstrate best practice concerning the issue of flock health and welfare from efficient stock handling and data collection to parasite management and disease prevention. Read More

1^st June 2022 NSA Scot Sheep 2022 Time: 9am Location: Over Finlarg, Tealing, Dundee. A record-breaking crowd flocked to Over Finlarg for the long-awaited NSA Scotsheep 2022, where thousands of farmers, industry enthusiasts and school children gathered for a well-deserved day out in the Angus countryside. After being postponed on three previous occasions due to COVID-19, host farmers Robert and Hazel McNee, were delighted to finally open their farm gates to visitors who travelled the length and breadth of the UK, and indeed from Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Read More

31^st May 2022 NSA Scottish Region Next Generation Shepherds competition Time: 1pm Location: Huntingfaulds Farm, Tealing, Dundee, DD4 0RB, nearby to NSA Scot Sheep 2022 host farm. NSA Next Generation of the Year Competition Sponsored by the Texel Sheep Society 1st          Ewan Runciman, Huntington Farm Cottages, Lauder, Berwickshire. 2nd         Freddy Fulford, Erracht Lodge, Banavie, Fort William. 3rd          Billy Gray, Sornbeg Farm, Galston, Ayrshire. Read More

23^rd May 2022 RoSA Webinar: Carbon Auditing Time: 7.00pm Location: Online This webinar was hosted by Greg Hopkinson from BASIS and focused on the importance of carbon auditing for the sheep industry and the next steps sheep farmers can take for their business. You can catch up on the webinar here.  Speakers at the event who gave us a great insight to carbon auditing. Read More

22^nd May 2022 NSA South East Next Generation Shepherds competition - In conjunction with Southern Shears Time: 8:30am Location: Copford Sawmill, Dern Lane, Heathfield, East Sussex. TN21 0PN The South East Region held its Next Generation Shepherds Competition in conjunction with Southern Shears, the UK’s major shearing contest at Copford Sawmill, Heathfield, East Sussex, on Sunday 22nd May. A keenly fought contest saw young shepherds compete across a range of tasks essential to their trade, from electric fence erecting and ATV handling to shearing, stock handling and completing a detailed questionnaire on their flock health knowledge. Read More

21^st May 2022 NSA South West Region Next Generation Shepherd Competition Time: 11am Location: Gupworthy Farm, Wheddon Cross, Somerset, TA24 7DA After being delayed from the autumn we have now managed to hold our South West Next Generation Shepherd competition and farm walk at Gupworthy Farm, Wheddon Cross courtesy of Richard and Carolyn Webber and Family. On behalf of the South West Committee I would like to thank all those who were involved in making it such a successful day. Read More

19^th May 2022 NSA South East Region Farm Walk Time: 1.00pm Location: Hengherst Farm, Woodchurch, Ashford Kent, TN26 3PN. Thursday 19th May saw twenty South East Region members in Kent for a farm walk hosted by Ed and Gemma Lovejoy of Hope Farm, Wittersham.  Following an introduction from Ed, shepherd Will Edmonds described the farm’s sheep system in detail, emphasising the importance of it’s “closed flock, vertically integrated” policy to all aspects of the flock’s health and profitability. Read More

5^th May 2022 NSA Breed Society Forum Time: 10.30am Location: Online The NSA Breed Society Forum took place online on Thursday to discuss current policy hot topics, with interesting conversation around the Northern Ireland Protocol and live breeding animal exports. NSA shared information with attendees on how it continues to be in contact with Defra and NI counterparts to highlight just how important this trade is for the UK sheep sector. Read More

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