OnFARM Podcast: Moredun's 100 years of livestock health

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In 1920, a visionary group of Scottish farmers came together to work out how to cut alarmingly high rates of livestock losses. Together, they formed ADRA - the Animal Diseases Research Association.

These days, it is still owned and run by farmers, but is better known as the Moredun Research Institute for animal health. Many of the vaccines and treatments now routinely used on UK sheep and cattle were developed by Moredun scientists. In its hundredth year, OnFARM's Monty is learning about the history and heritage of this little-known Scottish success story.

This is the first of four OnFARM episodes to mark the Moredun's centenary 1920 - 2020.

Guests this week:Professor Julie Fitzpatrick - Scientific Director of the Moredun Research Institute and Chief Executive of the Moredun FoundationMungo Guthrie - Ayrshire farmer and Moredun board memberProfessor Lee Innes - Moredun director of communicationsDr Lynsey Melville - early career post-doc researcher at MoredunDr David Smith - early career post-doc researcher at Moredun