Ricardo Miranda and his familiy, manage this dairy flock of around 750 Assaf sheep and 150 has, which also runs as a school farm and usually collaborates with ITACYL – Instituto Tecnológico Agrario de Castilla y León. The management...
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Neiker, the Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, has a dairy sheep flock in Arkaute, Spain. There are around 130 adult Latxa sheep plus 45 ewe-lambs and is managed as a commercial flock within the breeding scheme of...
On Friday, 31 October 2024 the annual meeting with the General Assembly of the Consorzio Agnello di Sardegna IGP took place in Sardinia. It is an important and awaited event both by the rural world and by those of...
A national Suckler and Sheep Open Day was held on a commercial farm on 23/07/2024. The open day consisted of stands on beef and sheep production, commercial displays and up to date information from relevant research projects, including LIFE...
Sindy Throude and Lyubov Bragina presented the most recent results of the LIFE Green Sheep project at the 75th annual conference of EAAP (European Federation of Animal Science). Find here their presentations EAAP2024_Session66_THROUDE EAAP_2024_Irish Data Component of LIFE Green...
On the 30th of May 2024, Roberto Ruiz, from NEIKER-BRTA participated in the meeting of the dairy sector working group of the Food For Life Spain Technology Platform (PT4LS) of the Spanish Federation of Food and Drink Industries (FIAB)....
On the occasion of the twenty-first edition of the National Sheep Market, held at the Hotel Puerta de Segovia (Segovia, Spain) on the 24th of May 2024, Roberto Ruiz, researcher at NEIKER-BRTA, took part to talk about the sustainability...
On 26th April 2024, the NEIKER-BRTA Animal Production team gave a seminar on the Importance of the Quality of Forage for Sheep feeding at the facilities of OVIARAGON in Zaragoza. Twenty-two people from the cooperative’s technical services took part...
Aragón is a region in Spain with a strong tradition in sheep meat production. It is home to approximately 2,200 flocks, with an average size of around 600 head, managed under semi-extensive systems. (Analysis of Extensive Livestock Farming, Government...
Celadas (Teruel) hosted on June 18, 2024 the first Open Day of the LIFE GREN SHEEP project, which brought together farmers and technical participants to discuss the effect of livestock farming on the environment, and some interesting agricultural and...