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R&D Scholarships

We offer three scholarship programmes to students studying agriculture, science, and have an interest in genetics or machine learning.

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    Scholarships

    We offer three scholarship programmes to students studying agriculture, science, and have an interest in genetics or machine learning.

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    Brian Aspin scholarship recipients

    Brian Aspin was a passionate dairy farmer who had a 38 year association with LIC. He was an AB Technician, an AB Supervisor, Liaison Farmer and Shareholder Councillor

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    Dr Patrick Shannon scholarship recipients

    This scholarship is named after one of the world's most innovative bovine geneticists and reproductive biologists. Dr Shannon joined us in the mid-1950s and made many world-breaking discoveries of great value to the sector.

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