Sm@RT – Small Ruminant Technologies: Flashback & lessons learnt

This episode focuses on the SM@RT project and features an international cast of researchers. Sm@RT is a EU funded project, which started in 2021 and will finish later this year. It is about encouraging uptake of innovations and technologies by sheep and goats farmers in Europe and beyond, and facilitating exchange of knowledge and ideas between farmers and researchers.The project identified farmers needs in terms of technologies, proposed practical solutions and ran participatory events on farms to demonstrate the use of these tools. The idea was to demystify the use of technologies on sheep and goats farms, and learn from different countries.The consortium comprises eight different countries – Estonia, Norway, the UK, Ireland, France, Hungary, Italy and Israel and 11 different partners.The episode is hosted by Claire Morgan-Davies, a researcher at SRUC and the coordinator of the Sm@RT project. Claire is joined by colleagues from:- Norway: Lise Grøva – from the Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy- Ireland: Brid McClearn – from Teagasc- Hungary: Renata Klein – from the University of Debrecen- Italy: Valeria Giovannetti – from Agris Sardegna- Israel: Assaf Godo – from the Agricultural Research Organisation- UK: Ann McLaren from SRUCSM@RT websiteSm@RT approach to sheep and goat farming - news piece on SRUC website