Labour efficiency on sheep farms - what does the research tell us?

Description

Webinar prepared for FAS webinar series: Sustainable Sheep Systems webinar focussing on one of the industry’s biggest challenges – labour.

As farm businesses face growing challenges in finding skilled and reliable workers, while also striving to maintain high animal welfare standards and a healthier work-life balance, making the best use of labour has never been more important. Efficient systems and labour management is essential, not only for productivity and profitability, but also for safeguarding the physical and mental wellbeing of farmers and workers.
This webinar cover topics that centre around optimising labour and simplifying systems, in particular how sheep systems can be simplified to reduce labour demands and free up valuable time.
Insights from SRUC’s Kirkton Farm, highlighting how the team identified key opportunities to save labour during lambing and the practical steps they took to make it happen. Through Claire’s co-ordination of the TechCare project, we will also look at what technological advances are available to streamline labour requirements.

Period	25 Nov 2025
Event title	Sustainable Sheep Systems series - webinar 2
Event type	Other
Degree of Recognition	National