The Sheep Geeks
Nerys Wright is an independent sheep consultant who loves talking about parasites and body condition score.
Liz Genever is an independent sheep consultant who loves talking about grass, forage and soil, and body condition score.
Together they are the sheep geeks. This podcast series launched October 2024. Liz and Nerys will be interviewing a range of sheep farmers, consultants, vets and academics from the UK and any other countries who have sheep.
Podcasting since 2024 • 14 episodes
The Sheep Geeks
Latest Episodes
Episode 14: Q&A at Christmas
Join Liz and Nerys for a catch-up before Christmas and our first Q&A. We almost talk about books more than sheep in this one. The guest format will be back in January. Dr Liz Genever is a farmer, consultant and co-fou...
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Episode 13: Talking to Richard Stanbury about his farming business and the importance of finding your support network
Richard Stanbury is a fourth generation beef and sheep farmer from near the edge of Exmoor in Devon. He has changed his system towards a high grass and forge system, with a focus on reducing inputs and maxmising profit. He has moved towards Eas...
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Episode 12: Talking to Matt Harding about producing rams off forage and the importance of being nosy
Matt Harding is a third generation ram breeder based in Warwickshire. He has changed from a higher input ram breeding approach to selling shearlings who have been raised on grass and forage. He breeds Suffolk rams, and also breeds rams for Inno...
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Episode 11: Talking to Mark "Ferg" Ferguson about Optiewe and working with farmers
Mark "Ferg" Ferguson is a consultant who works with sheep farmers and breeders in New Zealand and Australia. He is CEO of neXtgen Agri who runs consultants in most places with sheep in New Zealand and Australia. He was involved in the science b...
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Episode 10: Talking to Ben Strugnell about healthy and not so healthy sheep, plus the need for applied research
Ben Strugnell is a vet with an obsession of learning as much as possible from dead animals. He runs Farm Post Mortems up in County Durham and also presents at various events around the country. This is a legacy from an EBLEX/AHDB funded project...
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