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    Research consortium receives funding for Smart Sheep project

    Simon KingBy Simon KingNovember 5, 2020No Comments2 Mins Read
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    A UK research consortium has been awarded funding from the government’s Transforming Food Production Challenge Fund to develop new tools to encourage the adoption of Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) technologies in UK sheep flocks.

    The research consortium brings together leading academic institutes, industrial partners and sheep health experts. The project is led by the Moredun Research Institute and includes Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), Synergy Farm Health, 5 Agri, Nighthawk Software, LSSC Ltd, Datamars Livestock and Elanco Animal Health.

    PLF uses ‘smart technology’ to improve on-farm decision-making and closely monitor the health and wellbeing of each individual animal. The Smart Sheep project will build and develop user-friendly tools to drive PLF uptake on sheep farms, bringing on board focus farmers to validate and implement the tools with the aim of embedding PLF methods in the UK sheep industry.

    Although all UK sheep are electronically identified (EID) with a tag, uptake of PLF methods is very poor. Targeted Selective Treatment (TST) is an example of a successful PLF method that utilises the EID tag.

    With TST, underperforming lambs are identified using an algorithm so that they may be singled out for treatment, optimising the worming process. TST has major benefits in terms of saving time and money and combatting wormer resistance.

    Dr Fiona Kenyon, principal investigator at the Moredun Research Institute and Smart Sheep project leader, said: “We are delighted to be successful with our funding application to take forward the project and deliver innovative solutions which will enable sheep farmers to increase their productivity and profitability.”

    Dr Claire Morgan-Davies, systems researcher at SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre, added: “Until fairly recently, technological innovation have been seen as only relevant to low ground arable and dairy farming systems. But the use of precision livestock farming, as we call it, is just as relevant in upland areas, if not more so.

    “Such innovations can help increase the economic viability of hill farming and crofting by ensuring that individual animals are managed according to their individual health and welfare needs.”

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