A shepherd's overseas adventure: a morning report from two NSA travel bursary recipients

Charlie spent six weeks in New Zealand researching the improvement and utilisation of permanent pasture. She spoke about how the threat of Brexit had shaped her topic as far back as spring 2019 and was just as relevant today – on both her own farm and others around the UK.

Marie’s study tour focused on shearing practices in the Northern Hemisphere. She travelled within the UK and surveyed both sheep farmers and shearers, before going to France, Norway and Iceland. Commenting on improving the experience for farmers, shearers and sheep, she provided practical messages, such as emptying sheep well in advance of turning them over on the shearing board.

The travel bursaries will be made available again later in 2021, thanks to an ongoing partnership with the Company of Merchants of the Staple of England.

To read the full reports from Charlie and Marie, please visit the NSA Next Generation website here. And to read a more in depth report on this webinar, click here.