The Moredun-run ‘For Flock’s Sake’ sheep scab project, funded by the Rural Development Programme for England and supported by SCOPS, was Launched earlier this year.Its objective is to demonstrate the effectiveness of a community-led approach to improve the control of sheep scab in three of England’s hotspot areas.Within each hotspot there are ‘clusters’ of farms that share common boundaries or use the same common grazing,and the aim is to foster cooperation within each cluster to control scab. The two-year project offers up to 300 participating farmers a uniquecombination of on-farm advice, best- practice training and free blood testing using the sheep scab ELISA test, developed by Moredun. It also covers the cost of vet visits to take two sets of blood samples for ELISA testing, plus a face-to-face advisorysession for each farm to discuss scab control and biosecurity.
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