Published: Tuesday, 15th January 2019
Work has begun on a new £1 million research project to discover what causes lameness in dairy cows.
Published: Thursday, 27th December 2018
Scientists have uncovered a genetic difference in people who show greater compassion for animals.
Published: Wednesday, 19th December 2018
SRUC and the Moredun Research Institute (MRI) have set out plans for their new strategic partnership to benefit Scotland’s livestock and farming industries.
Published: Wednesday, 12th December 2018
A new research project involving SRUC aims to improve UK production efficiency by enabling farmers to determine the optimum mature size for beef cattle and sheep.
Published: Friday, 30th November 2018
A visitor attraction that celebrates the changing face of the planet was an appropriate venue for Scotland’s Biennial Land Use and Environment Conference.
Published: Thursday, 15th November 2018
The gender pay gap in rural, island and remote areas has decreased over the last decade.
Published: Monday, 12th November 2018
Researchers from SRUC recently visited Guinea-Bissau as part of their Academy of Medical Sciences/Global Challenges Research Fund project on diversification within cashew production.
Published: Tuesday, 16th October 2018
Scottish dairy farmers are being offered the chance to learn how scientific research can be practically applied to reduce lameness in dairy cows.
Published: Tuesday, 18th September 2018
A simple blood test could be used to predict the future health and productivity of dairy cows, research shows.
Published: Tuesday, 11th September 2018
Researchers recently welcomed academics from one of the world’s poorest countries to SRUC with the aim of helping their university to develop an agronomy degree.
Published: Monday, 10th September 2018
A comprehensive ‘MOT for the soil’, measuring everything from pH levels to earthworm activity, has been created by Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Thursday, 6th September 2018
Ground-breaking research into cattle methane emissions and an innovative genetics evaluation service has earned Scotland’s Rural College two nominations at this year’s Times Higher Education Awards.
Published: Wednesday, 29th August 2018
A well-known researcher at Scotland’s Rural College has been named as the new Scientific Director of the Scottish Consortium for Rural Research (SCRR).
Published: Friday, 24th August 2018
Scotland’s Rural College has been recognised for the global impact of its dairy research by a leading scientific journal.
Published: Wednesday, 15th August 2018
With 2018 proving a particularly challenging year in terms of grass growth, a series of webinars has been created to help farmers get the most from their pastures.
Published: Wednesday, 8th August 2018
An unlikely new weapon in Scottish farming’s battle with the multi-million pound slug menace has been revealed – Swiss-style muesli.
Published: Friday, 3rd August 2018
SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre upland research and demonstration farms, near Crianlarich, were recently the focus of a Ministerial visit.
Published: Thursday, 2nd August 2018
A special event at Scotland’s only “phenotype farm” has highlighted the importance of feed-intake monitoring.
Published: Thursday, 2nd August 2018
Staff from SRUC's Rural Policy Centre recently spent a day in London talking to politicians and policy makers about post-Brexit challenges in Scotand.
Published: Wednesday, 1st August 2018
A large-scale telephone survey of thousands of Scottish farmers has been announced.
Published: Tuesday, 24th July 2018
Sheep experts from Scotland’s Rural College have taken part in an international workshop in Spain designed to increase ewe productivity (number of lambs reared per ewe joined).
Published: Wednesday, 20th June 2018
A new publication showcasing the world-leading research of Scotland’s Rural College is available online.
Published: Tuesday, 19th June 2018
A study to help farmers protect their barley against Ramularia Leaf Spot is among four SRUC projects to benefit from a total of almost £100k in new grants from the Mains of Loirston Charitable Trust.
Published: Wednesday, 6th June 2018
A new scoping study that will drive the future direction of genetic improvement in the British sheep industry has been announced.
Published: Tuesday, 5th June 2018
More than 60 secondary school pupils recently attended an enjoyable Rural Skills Day at SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre farms, near Crianlarich.
Published: Tuesday, 5th June 2018
Pig KerPlunk and a popcorn-dispensing piñata are among a collection of unique objects created for an event at a Scotland’s Rural College research farm which explored how pigs like to play.
Published: Thursday, 31st May 2018
Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College have recently returned from Guinea-Bissau in Western Africa to assist in building networking and knowledge transfer centres between international researchers.
Published: Tuesday, 29th May 2018
There are ten key questions following Brexit that policymakers for rural Scotland must ask themselves.
Published: Tuesday, 22nd May 2018
Professor Fiona Burnett, Head of Crop and Soils Research at SRUC, outlined her role as agriculture sector lead at the launch of Scotland’s new Plant Health Centre.
Published: Friday, 18th May 2018
A senior agricultural economist at SRUC has helped to produce a new report highlighting the challenges that could face farming and crofting communities in the Highlands and Islands, post Brexit.
Published: Wednesday, 9th May 2018
A world-renowned professor of agricultural research will discuss the changing global landscape of agriculture at the upcoming Science for Life Lecture, given as part of the SEFARI PhD competition.
Published: Monday, 30th April 2018
Scottish farmers are being encouraged to work closely with retailers to accurately record food waste and help ensure that more fruit and vegetables make their way along the supply chain.
Published: Wednesday, 25th April 2018
SRUC scientists, whose world-leading research has spanned nearly half a century of study into the Langhill dairy herd, were among guests at a reception to celebrate our Queen's Anniversary Prize.
Published: Tuesday, 24th April 2018
World-leading livestock scientists from Scotland’s Rural College are set to give vets the lowdown on genomics to give them the knowledge that farmers need to optimise their breeding decisions.
Published: Monday, 9th April 2018
Researchers from SRUC and the James Hutton Institute, both part of the SEFARI collective, are speaking at this week’s OECD Rural Development Conference, Enhancing Rural Innovation, in Edinburgh.
Published: Monday, 9th April 2018
A high-tech system involving 3D cameras could help UK farmers spot the early warning signs of tail biting in pigs – a health and welfare concern in affected pigs and an economic concern for industry.
Published: Tuesday, 27th March 2018
As Easter approaches, poultry experts at Scotland’s Rural College have laid out the details of a special webinar for small and medium-sized egg producers.
Published: Monday, 26th March 2018
A noted professor in livestock genetics at Scotland’s Rural College has been appointed to the Research Excellence Framework (REF) Panel 2021.
Published: Sunday, 25th March 2018
The valuable role played by thousands of seasonal migrant workers in Scottish agriculture has been highlighted in a new report by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).
Published: Thursday, 22nd March 2018
SRUC is working with the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) to embark on two new projects which will take the agricultural industry one step closer to eradicating Bovine TB (bTB).
Published: Tuesday, 20th March 2018
Consumers around the UK could soon be playing an important role in livestock genetics, thanks to a unique mobile sensory lab being unveiled this week by Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 14th March 2018
The Prince’s Countryside Fund with Professor Sarah Skerratt from Scotland’s Rural College is inviting anyone living in rural areas of the UK to contribute to their latest research, Recharging Rural.​​
Published: Tuesday, 13th March 2018
SRUC hosts April workshop on plant and animal genetics R&D.
Published: Tuesday, 13th March 2018
Farming cannot look like it does now in one or two generations’ time.
Published: Monday, 12th March 2018
Joint workshop will look at shared rural challenges in Scotland and Ireland.
Published: Monday, 12th March 2018
Annual business turnover in rural areas could grow by at least £1.44 billion across Scotland, with rural microbusiness and small-sized business seeing the greatest returns.
Published: Friday, 9th March 2018
Scottish farmers are being advised to take steps and plan fodder usage now, with experts predicting a late spring.
Published: Wednesday, 28th February 2018
New SRUC paper highlights connections between emotion and welfare.
Published: Wednesday, 28th February 2018
Meat and milk production from cattle could one day be boosted, thanks to analysis of microbes in cows’ stomachs.
Published: Tuesday, 27th February 2018
The Principal and Chief Executive of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has been made a Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Published: Friday, 23rd February 2018
A ten-strong delegation from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) recently attended a special investiture at Buckingham Palace to receive SRUC’s Queen’s Anniversary Prize from Prince Charles.
Published: Monday, 19th February 2018
Leaving the single market and customs union poses potential risks to Scottish farming, an SRUC study has concluded.
Published: Tuesday, 13th February 2018
An SRUC professor recently appeared on the famous One Show sofa to talk to a BBC audience of millions about the fascinating research at the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics & Health.
Published: Tuesday, 13th February 2018
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC), the AHDB and Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) are running two Brexit roadshows in Scotland in February and March.
Published: Tuesday, 30th January 2018
New research has revealed a gap in knowledge about disease control practices in many of Scotland’s small-scale poultry keepers and egg producers.
Published: Friday, 26th January 2018
Research to improve the health and productivity of farmed animals in tropical climates has received a £4 million boost from the UK Government.
Published: Tuesday, 16th January 2018
Exotic pine tree species planted next to native Scots pine forests should be removed to limit the risk of disease to native trees, new research suggests.
Published: Monday, 18th December 2017
The Prince’s Countryside Fund has appointed Professor Sarah Skerratt of SRUC to conduct research into the sustainability of rural communities across the UK, entitled Recharging Rural.
Published: Tuesday, 5th December 2017
Scotland’s Rural College is making headlines around the world following a visit by Reuters to SRUC’s GreenCow facility at Easter Howgate.
Published: Thursday, 30th November 2017
World-leading research recognised with Queen’s Anniversary Prize.
Published: Monday, 27th November 2017
Sheep are able to distinguish each other’s facial expressions, a new study has revealed.
Published: Friday, 3rd November 2017
An Edinburgh-based scientist who – in the words of Bill Gates – has helped turn the city into “a world capital for livestock health and genetics”, has received an honorary fellowship from SRUC.
Published: Wednesday, 11th October 2017
A Scottish study that potentially paves the way for the breeding of low-emission livestock has won an internationally respected research prize.
Published: Wednesday, 11th October 2017
Marianna Markantoni, a Rural Society Researcher with SRUC’s Rural Policy Centre, has been selected to be among the 30 outstanding scientists of the 2017 Scottish Crucible.
Published: Wednesday, 11th October 2017
SRUC’s economists made a major contribution to the 50th European Association of Agricultural Economics conference held recently in Parma, Italy.
Published: Thursday, 14th September 2017
Unifying the approaches to plant and animal breeding through the use of genomic selection is crucial to achieving global food security, according to a team of world leading scientists.
Published: Wednesday, 30th August 2017
SRUC’s Animal Behaviour and Welfare team swept the board winning all the major prizes at the recent International Society for Applied Ethology (ISAE) Congress in Denmark.
Published: Wednesday, 30th August 2017
SRUC’s involvement in ReMIX - a newly launched EU project on intercropping - was showcased at the recent Cereals in Practice event held at Saphock Farm near Oldmeldrum in Aberdeenshire.
Published: Wednesday, 30th August 2017
Barony Campus of Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) have benefitted by receiving a very generous donation from John Deere Forestry.
Published: Wednesday, 16th August 2017
Over 40 ground-breaking livestock research projects are highlighted in a new publication from SRUC to promote agricultural innovation that can benefit producers and the wider industry.
Published: Wednesday, 16th August 2017
SRUC is one of the key partners in a new £5.5 million initiative to improve the health and productivity of farmed animals in sub-Saharan Africa.
Published: Wednesday, 16th August 2017
SRUC Aberdeen showed a display of cross collaboration between the three core divisions at a recent Learning for Sustainability event hosted by Kemnay Academy.
Published: Wednesday, 19th July 2017
The technical challenges of feeding a growing world population from less land is a key focus for over 400 delegates gathering in Edinburgh this week for a major conference.
Published: Wednesday, 19th July 2017
Over 100 Angus breeders and industry leaders from across the world have visited SRUC’s Easter Howgate Farm as part of the World Angus Forum tour of the UK and Ireland.
Published: Wednesday, 19th July 2017
Recently Dr Henry Creissen of SRUC and Dr Thies Heick of Aarhus University were invited to present their research findings to the Lithuanian State Agricultural Advisory Service.
Published: Friday, 7th July 2017
Bill Dingwall, Agriculture Lecturer and Team Leader, has received the Principal’s Lifetime in Teaching Award from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).
Published: Friday, 7th July 2017
A Scotland’s Rural College crop scientist has been awarded a personal Professorship in Crop Physiology.
Published: Friday, 7th July 2017
Marie Haskell, a respected animal welfare expert who focuses on what animals tell her about what suits them, has been awarded a Professorship.
Published: Friday, 7th July 2017
Gillian Inman’s work on calculating Scottish farming’s carbon footprint has won the RC Stewart Prize for effort and excellence.
Published: Wednesday, 5th July 2017
New research from SRUC has validated claims of traditional healers in Ethiopia that indigenous plants have strong anti-parasitic properties.
Published: Wednesday, 5th July 2017
SRUC student Luise Seeker recently won the top prize at the inter-institute PhD competition across the Scottish Environment Food and Agriculture Research Institutes (SEFARI).
Published: Wednesday, 5th July 2017
Staff at the Edinburgh Campus of SRUC have been announced as joint winners of the Humane Slaughter Award by The Humane Slaughter Association (HSA).
Published: Wednesday, 31st May 2017
Researchers at SRUC recently hosted the annual meeting of iSAGE - a multi-million pound EU-funded research project aiming to future proof our sheep and goat farming industry.
Published: Wednesday, 31st May 2017
A team from SRUC's Crop and Soil Systems (CSS) and Land Economy Environment and Society (LEES) research groups recently attended the kick-off meeting of the new EU project ReMIX.
Published: Wednesday, 31st May 2017
New research has found that the general public is supportive of ambitious plans by the Scottish Government to restore Scotland’s peatlands - which benefits water quality, wildlife and carbon storage.
Published: Wednesday, 31st May 2017
SRUC researchers recently facilitated a workshop hosted by the Rare Breeds Survival Trust (RBST) to discuss the conservation of UK’s native livestock breeds which are at risk.
Published: Wednesday, 17th May 2017
SRUC researchers are working with the Lothians Monitor Farm on a three year research project which aims to increase the number of pollinators on farm.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd May 2017
A leading SRUC course in animal welfare education has been recognised for its contribution in driving innovation in animal welfare for more than quarter of a century.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd May 2017
SRUC researchers are co-investigators on a new £8.6 m research programme to investigate ways to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere to counteract global warming.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd May 2017
Professor Appolinaire Djikeng has been appointed to head the Centre for Tropical Livestock Genetics and Health (CTGH).
Published: Wednesday, 3rd May 2017
Edinburgh is hosting the 11th ECPA (European Conference on Precision Agriculture) this summer - 20 years since it was first held in the UK.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd May 2017
Professor Richard Dewhurst, Head of Future Farming Systems at SRUC, has been elected as the new President of the British Society of Animal Science.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd May 2017
Students from the MSc courses in Environmental Protection and Management, and Soils and Sustainability recently completed a successful field study tour in the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.
Published: Wednesday, 19th April 2017
SRUC's role in supporting innovation in agriculture was highlighted when Greg Clark, Secretary of State for the UK's Government Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, visited.
Published: Tuesday, 18th April 2017
For Dr Mizeck Chagunda a mobile phone means more than just access to social media.
Published: Tuesday, 18th April 2017
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham launched SEFARI – a new collaborative project between six of Scotland’s leading research institutes - during a visit to SRUC’s GreenCow facility.
Published: Tuesday, 18th April 2017
Over 2000 children (and enthusiastic parents!) took part in two activities hosted by SRUC researchers as part of this years’ Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Published: Tuesday, 28th March 2017
Over 50 PhD students displayed their research at the annual SRUC Postgraduate Conference which was praised for its exceptionally high quality of work.
Published: Wednesday, 15th March 2017
Special funding of more than £2.2m - just awarded to SRUC - means three exciting new research facilities can be built.
Published: Wednesday, 15th March 2017
The SRUC Animal Behaviour and Welfare (ABW) group has been running a series of workshops to contribute to the One Welfare framework consultation.
Published: Tuesday, 28th February 2017
A world renowned animal behaviour professor has told an SRUC seminar that to increase animal welfare we must move away from words and take a more sensory based approach.
Published: Tuesday, 28th February 2017
Almost a fifth of the food made available to consumers is lost through over-eating or waste, according to a study led by an SRUC researcher.
Published: Tuesday, 28th February 2017
SRUC researcher Professor Mike Coffey - based at East Bush Campus - has been appointed President of the British Cattle Breeders’ Club (BCBC).
Published: Tuesday, 28th February 2017
SRUC staff will be running interactive family activities based around thermal imaging of animals and healthy soils at this year’s Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Published: Tuesday, 14th February 2017
Davy McCracken, Head of SRUC's Hill & Mountain Research Centre, recently paid a flying visit to Brussels.
Published: Wednesday, 1st February 2017
Xin Shu, an SRUC postgraduate research student with Crops and Soil Systems, recently hosted a high profile presentation to the Nanjing Agricultural University (NAU) in China.
Published: Monday, 30th January 2017
Consultants and researchers behind an innovative project which improved milk quality and boosted cheese yield have been shortlisted for the prestigious Scottish Knowledge Exchange Awards.
Published: Wednesday, 18th January 2017
Aberdeen-based Professor Christine Watson, Team Leader Soil Science, was one of the keynote speakers at the “alternative” event to the Oxford Farming Conference.
Published: Wednesday, 18th January 2017
With anecdotal evidence of an increase in “joint-ill” - a disease affecting the joints of young lambs - investigators from SRUC are offering free post mortem tests to sheep farmers and their vets.
Published: Wednesday, 23rd November 2016
A new mobile CT scanner, currently undergoing calibration tests with SRUC, offers yet more clarity and inside knowledge for both livestock researchers and pedigree breeders.
Published: Wednesday, 23rd November 2016
Maureen Steel of SRUC’s Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Research Division was recently presented with a crystal glass rose bowl in recognition of 25 years of service to SAC and latterly SRUC.
Published: Wednesday, 9th November 2016
For those who have never got past the fright of having a wriggly creature dropped down their necks as children worms can have an image problem.
Published: Thursday, 13th October 2016
Scientists from Scotland’s Rural College are warning Scottish cereal growers of a north south divide over the threat from the wheat bulb fly pest.
Published: Thursday, 13th October 2016
SRUC’s Dairy Research Centre at Crichton Royal Farm in Dumfries recently hosted a Scottish Association of Young Farmers’ Clubs event which focused on “surviving and thriving” within the dairy sector.
Published: Wednesday, 28th September 2016
Edinburgh sunshine welcomed some 270 international crop and systems specialists attending the 14th European Society for Agronomy (ESA) Conference.
Published: Wednesday, 28th September 2016
A trip to Zurich, supported by the SRUC Trust Fund, offered PhD student Anna Florence the opportunity to wide her discussions about the effects of stress and other challenges on growing crops.
Published: Wednesday, 7th September 2016
SRUC is a key tenant of a new collaborative centre in Inverness which was opened recently by Deputy First Minister John Swinney.
Published: Wednesday, 7th September 2016
Irene Camerlink from the Animal Behaviour & Welfare team in Edinburgh is celebrating after wining a Young Investigators award from the International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA).
Published: Wednesday, 7th September 2016
SRUC’s Livestock Geneticist Joanne Conington recently gave a keynote address at the conference of the joint Australian-New Zealand Societies of Animal Production in Adelaide, Australia.
Published: Monday, 5th September 2016
With the loss of reliable chemical controls, experts at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) are advising farmers to start planning now if they want to limit leatherjacket damage to crops and grassland.
Published: Wednesday, 17th August 2016
Scientists at SRUC, together with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh and Rothamsted Research, have unravelled the genome of Ramularia, a fungal disease attacking barley crops.
Published: Wednesday, 17th August 2016
A team of researchers from Scotland’s Rural College is contributing to iSAGE, a new multi-million pound EU-funded research project aiming to future proof our sheep and goat farming industry.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd August 2016
It’s one thing to make toys for your children… but what about your pigs?!
Published: Wednesday, 20th July 2016
Five focus farmers have been selected for a new “Live Lambs” project, facilitated by Scotland’s Rural College and aimed at improving lamb survival.
Published: Tuesday, 19th July 2016
SRUC Livestock Geneticist Dr Rainer Roehe was awarded a Professorship of Animal Genetics and Microbiome during SRUC’s annual graduation ceremony in Bute Hall, University of Glasgow.
Published: Tuesday, 19th July 2016
Over 550 animal scientists congregated in Scotland’s capital recently to discuss an incredibly diverse range of research.
Published: Wednesday, 6th July 2016
An SRUC PhD student aims to make it far easier for females to get pregnant on the first attempt, female cows that is.
Published: Wednesday, 6th July 2016
SRUC student Jolinda Pollock has won 3rd place at an inter-institute PhD competition.
Published: Tuesday, 21st June 2016
Members of SRUC’s board and senior management team recently paid a visit to Kirkton and Auchtertyre farms near Crianlarich – home to SRUC’s upland research facilities.
Published: Tuesday, 21st June 2016
An SRUC PhD student will combine social science with animal genetics in an attempt to help African dairy farmers breed the ideal cow for their environment.
Published: Wednesday, 8th June 2016
The winners of Scotland’s Rural College nationwide art competition have been announced - after much deliberation from the judges due to the high standard of entries.
Published: Thursday, 26th May 2016
With despite uncertainty over future levels of subsidy for energy production there is still considerable interest in using grass as a feedstock for on-farm anaerobic digestors (AD).
Published: Thursday, 26th May 2016
SRUC’s Mizeck Chagunda, Reader in Diary Science and Vice Chair of the Scotland Malawi Partnership, has high praise for coffee growing in Malawi.
Published: Thursday, 26th May 2016
An SRUC research scientist has won a prestigious award from the British Society of Animal Science (BSAS) in recognition for a landmark paper presented at the society’s annual conference.
Published: Thursday, 26th May 2016
SRUC Professors Alistair Stott and Bob Rees have returned from Beijing where they took part in a workshop exploring ways of utilising satellite technology to make big data work for millions in China.
Published: Wednesday, 27th April 2016
Research at SRUC was strongly represented at this year’s Annual Conference in Chester which focused on Animal Science for a Sustainable Future.
Published: Wednesday, 27th April 2016
A company specialising in agricultural lighting for the livestock sector has cited access to SRUC’s research specialists as a main reason for moving to new premises at Roslin, just outside Edinburgh.
Published: Thursday, 7th April 2016
As part of Edinburgh international Science Festival, SRUC shone the spotlight on some of Scotland’s smallest wildlife and the important role they play in our countryside!
Published: Thursday, 7th April 2016
SRUC recently held its annual Postgraduate Conference at the Edinburgh Campus based at King’s Buildings which profiled a wide range of research subjects and an exceptionally high quality of work.
Published: Thursday, 24th March 2016
A recent policy briefing from the Crichton Institute highlighted the need for Dumfries and Galloway communities to work together to ensure parts of the region don't miss out on superfast broadband.
Published: Thursday, 24th March 2016
Researcher Professor Christine Watson has just returned from Italy where she joined 19 other experts on an EU focus group advising on agricultural productivity and sustainability.
Published: Thursday, 10th March 2016
Industry and academics will work together to create a new global hub for agricultural engineering and precision farming using £17.5 million of funding over the next four years.
Published: Thursday, 10th March 2016
Presentations by 25 high profile speakers from the UK and Brussels stimulated successful discussion and debate at the eleventh Agriculture and Environment conference held last week in Edinburgh.
Published: Thursday, 10th March 2016
Three Brazilian researchers recently visited Scotland’s Rural College as part of ongoing collaboration between scientists at SRUC and EMBRAPA, Brazil’s giant agricultural research organisation.
Published: Thursday, 10th March 2016
It may be winter with the hills covered in snow, but that doesn’t stop staff from SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre near Crianlarich spreading the word about the research being carried out!
Published: Friday, 26th February 2016
Dumfries-based dairy researcher Dr Dave Roberts gave his inaugural professorial lecture at Easterbrook Hall on Tuesday 23 February.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd February 2016
Research published by Scotland’s Rural College confirms that under the new Common Agricultural Policy payments most of Scotland’s intensive beef farms will suffer financially.
Published: Wednesday, 27th January 2016
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) will be relocating its poultry research unit from Ayrshire to Midlothian.
Published: Wednesday, 27th January 2016
An ambitious action plan helping organic food and farming build a more sustainable future, regenerate the rural economy and conserve biodiversity and natural resources has been launched for Scotland.
Published: Wednesday, 27th January 2016
SRUC’s new Head of Farms Dr Martin Kennerley is looking forward to getting to grips with the college’s network of farms as he takes up his role this month.
Published: Wednesday, 27th January 2016
Reduced meat consumption might not lower greenhouse gas emissions from one of the world’s biggest beef producing regions, new research has found.
Published: Wednesday, 27th January 2016
Farmers are being asked to share their views on crop pollination as part of a Europe-wide research project.
Published: Wednesday, 13th January 2016
The importance of genomics and genetics in livestock breeding were highlighted at SRUC’s recent professorial lectures.
Published: Wednesday, 13th January 2016
A £7 million new Centre is being established between UK and Chinese scientists to tackle the issues of nitrogen use and pollution from agriculture.
Published: Thursday, 10th December 2015
Recently SRUC’s Professor Nick Sparks and Head of Vet Services Brian Hosie met the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs, Food and the Environment when he toured the Easter Bush Campus.
Published: Thursday, 10th December 2015
Professor Geoff Simm, Head of Research at SRUC and Agricultural Economist Steven Thomson recently contributed to a conference in Brussels considering the future of the sheep sector in Europe.
Published: Thursday, 26th November 2015
Efforts to tackle challenges faced by livestock farmers in developing countries have been boosted by a £10 million research award.
Published: Thursday, 26th November 2015
At the inaugural Scottish Rural Summit, held on 24 November, rural society expert Professor Sarah Skerratt said that Scotland is well equipped to improve the lives of rural communities.
Published: Thursday, 26th November 2015
An intrepid team of animal behaviour and welfare scientists usually based at Edinburgh’s Easter Bush Estate took a Sunday road-trip to Dundee to take part in the city’s successful Science Festival.
Published: Thursday, 26th November 2015
A review article written by Dale Walters, Jaan Ratsep and Neil Havis has become a highly cited paper, in the top 1% of its academic field, according to the Web of Science.
Published: Wednesday, 11th November 2015
The SCOTIA Agricultural Club Prize has been awarded to Postgraduate SRUC Research Student, Sokratis Ptochos.
Published: Thursday, 29th October 2015
This week (Monday 26 October) 'Agrimetrics', the World's first Big data Centre of Excellence for the whole food system, was officially launched by ministers George Eustice MP and George Freeman MP.
Published: Thursday, 29th October 2015
Dr Ian Duncan and Dr Kay Swinburne, MEPs for Scotland and Wales respectively, visited The Roslin Institute and Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) at the Easter Bush campus on Friday 2 October.
Published: Thursday, 29th October 2015
SRUC senior researcher Dave Ross recently spoke at the Satellites for Agri-Food Consortia Building Workshop in London.
Published: Wednesday, 14th October 2015
Opting not to grow Genetically Modified (GM) crops in Scotland might be an ‘old and dirty’ approach as opposed to a ‘clean and green’ one, according to biologist Professor Dame Anne Glover.
Published: Wednesday, 14th October 2015
SRUC recently completed an evaluation of Scotland’s Community Right to Buy legislation in collaboration with research consultancy Ipsos MORI.
Published: Wednesday, 14th October 2015
The importance of animal welfare was highlighted by the team at Scotland’s Rural College at their Animal Welfare Day celebrating 50 years since the Brambell Report.
Published: Wednesday, 14th October 2015
SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre upland research farms, near Crianlarich, recently held three major knowledge exchange events in the space of one week.
Published: Wednesday, 14th October 2015
Scientists from SRUC’s Animal and Veterinary Science Group were out in force at the recent Midlothian Science Festival Open Day held at the Roslin Institute.
Published: Friday, 9th October 2015
That is the question Scotland’s Rural College is asking the nation’s children in their new art competition.
Published: Thursday, 1st October 2015
Scientists from Scotland’s Rural College have invited secondary school children from across Scotland to join them for a live online discussion on how best to care for our animals.
Published: Thursday, 1st October 2015
There is now an international network of 330 people with expertise in Farm Animal Imaging, thanks to an SRUC led initiative which culmintated recently at a conference in Edinburgh.
Published: Wednesday, 16th September 2015
The Edinburgh trials team at Scotland’s Rural College are celebrating the arrival of a brand new combine harvester.
Published: Wednesday, 16th September 2015
There was a focus on safe and cost-effective handling of sheep and cattle at SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre upland research farms’ recent open day.
Published: Wednesday, 16th September 2015
A key issue for upland farmers is the need to ensure economic viability while balancing a host of competing concerns.
Published: Thursday, 3rd September 2015
Plant pathologists from Scotland’s Rural College believe that the recent heavy rain could greatly increase the risk of fungal disease in next year’s spring barley.
Published: Thursday, 3rd September 2015
Cutting edge farming technology and research will be showcased in Edinburgh at the 11th European Conference on Precision Agriculture in July 2017.
Published: Thursday, 3rd September 2015
Statistical research by SRUC shows that Glasgow beats Edinburgh in the home-grown power postcode league, while Inverurie is Scotland’s solar capital.
Published: Thursday, 3rd September 2015
Ailsa Thomson, a 3rd year Agriculture student at SRUC’s Aberdeen Campus, has gained invaluable knowledge about farming after a summer working at SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre in Stirlingshire
Published: Thursday, 3rd September 2015
Scientists from Scotland’s Rural College are advising oilseed rape farmers to keep a close eye on their winter crop this year.
Published: Wednesday, 19th August 2015
SRUC experts outlined some serious challenges for potato growers at this year’s Potatoes in Practice event, held in conjunction with the James Hutton Institute.
Published: Wednesday, 19th August 2015
Professor Lutz Bunger recently returned from a study trip to the University of Padova, Italy to learn more about their studies into the meat quality and genetic muscling of pigs and beef cattle.
Published: Wednesday, 29th July 2015
Professor Dave Roberts and researcher Lorna Paton attended the recent International Farm Management Congress in Canada to both contribute and learn more before SRUC hosts the next event in 2017.
Published: Wednesday, 15th July 2015
More than 150 graduands attended the Scotland’s Rural College graduation ceremony on Friday 10 July 2015 at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow.
Published: Wednesday, 15th July 2015
Eight accomplished members of staff from SRUC’s Research Division were conferred with Professorships and Readerships at SRUC’s summer graduation ceremony at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow.
Published: Wednesday, 15th July 2015
The SRUC graduation ceremony on 10 July was particularly special for SRUC’s Vice Principal Education Professor David McKenzie, since it was his final working day before retiring from SRUC.
Published: Wednesday, 15th July 2015
A major peatland restoration project, led by Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park in collaboration with SRUC and Luss Estates, will help reduce the effects of climate change.
Published: Wednesday, 15th July 2015
A group of 40 French students recently visited SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertrye upland research farms to hear about the agricultural and environmental challenges facing Scottish hill farmers.
Published: Friday, 10th July 2015
Consultant Douglas Bell and researcher Steven Thomson, both well known and respected members of SRUC staff, have shared an award.
Published: Friday, 10th July 2015
Two senior researchers from Scotland’s Rural College received advancement to the status of Reader during SRUC’s annual graduation ceremony at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on Friday 10 July 2015.
Published: Friday, 10th July 2015
Dr Eileen Wall, a livestock breeding expert at Scotland’s Rural College was awarded a Professorship in Integrative Livestock Genetics at SRUC’s annual Graduation ceremony.
Published: Friday, 10th July 2015
Social scientist and expert in rural community issues Dr Sarah Skerratt has been awarded an SRUC Professorship in Rural Society and Policy during the Scotland’s Rural College graduation ceremony.
Published: Friday, 10th July 2015
Internationally recognised SRUC animal nutritionist Dr Jos Houdijk was awarded a Professorship in Animal Nutrition and Health at the college’s graduation ceremony at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow.
Published: Friday, 10th July 2015
Dumfries based dairy researcher Dr Dave Roberts was awarded a Personal Professorship and the title Professor of Dairy Farming Systems at SRUC’s graduation ceremony at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow.
Published: Friday, 10th July 2015
Dr Gareth Hughes, an expert who combines biology and mathematics to devise control strategies against diseases in crop plants has been awarded a Professorship in Plant Disease Epidemiology.
Published: Friday, 10th July 2015
Crop protection expert Dr Fiona Burnett, the Head of Crop and Soil Systems at Scotland’s Rural College, was awarded a Professorship in Applied Plant Pathology during SRUC’s annual Graduation ceremony.
Published: Wednesday, 1st July 2015
SRUC’s Marianne Farish has been recording thermal images of the world’s largest flower, the Titan Arum (corpse plant) at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE).
Published: Wednesday, 1st July 2015
Look to your soil if you want to control rushes on your farm.
Published: Wednesday, 1st July 2015
PhD student Kay Russell, working with the Animal and Veterinary Sciences Group at SRUC, won the best poster presentation award at the 1st International Conference on Necrotic Enteritis in Poultry.
Published: Tuesday, 23rd June 2015
You are invited to attend a press briefing before this year’s Cereals in Practice event held on Kirkton farm, Kinellar, Aberdeenshire on Thursday 2 July.
Published: Wednesday, 17th June 2015
A dry day encouraged more than a hundred visitors to Open Farm Sunday at Scotland’s Rural College’s research farms near Crianlarich.
Published: Wednesday, 17th June 2015
Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College in Inverness recently spent a day with senior maths classes at Perth High School showing them how the maths they are studying has real life applications.
Published: Wednesday, 17th June 2015
While SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre upland research farms are home to a variety of wild bees it was helicopter blades that were making the surrounding hills buzz recently.
Published: Wednesday, 17th June 2015
SRUC livestock geneticist Dr Joanne Conington has recently returned from a trip to New South Wales, where she was helping the Australians set up a new phase of their sheep research programme.
Published: Wednesday, 17th June 2015
Staff from the Avian Science Research Centre of Scotland’s Rural College played their usual key role in the annual Scottish Egg Quality Awards (SEQA) held recently in Perth.
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Published: Wednesday, 17th June 2015
Researchers from SRUC’s Sustainable Ecosystems Team contributed to a recently published study into the costs and benefits of expanding Marine Protected Areas around the globe.
Published: Thursday, 4th June 2015
A study into the effects of LED lighting on broiler chickens has found that there were no detrimental effects in comparison to more traditional tungsten lighting.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd June 2015
SRUC’s hill farming research farms, Kirkton and Auchtertyre, will be opening their gates and welcoming the general public for an action packed free day of scientific discovery and farming facts.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd June 2015
Production efficiency through well applied science lay at the heart of the public lectures delivered by two recently appointed Professors at Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd June 2015
SRUC’s Professor Richard Dewhurst has returned from Catalonia where he was part of an international group evaluating a research programme at an agricultural research institute.
Published: Tuesday, 2nd June 2015
Ways to improve the efficiency of sheep farming businesses will be the focus of activity on the Scotland’s Rural College stand at the keenly awaited “Highland Sheep 2015” event.
Published: Thursday, 21st May 2015
SRUC’s Kirkton and Auchentyre farms, near Crianlarich, will host a Soil Association Scotland two-year trial to investigate and demonstrate non-chemical techniques to control rushes on farms and crofts.
Published: Wednesday, 20th May 2015
Researchers from SRUC recently visited Malawi and outlined issues which are limiting opportunities for the country’s dairy sector, and trained local students and staff in research techniques.
Published: Wednesday, 20th May 2015
SRUC’s Epidemiology Research Unit, based in Inverness, is collaborating with other partners in a pioneering project to reduce the health risks in the Highlands from ticks carrying Lyme disease.
Published: Wednesday, 20th May 2015
As the world’s attention increasingly turns to feeding its booming population, two SRUC experts will give public lectures on the crucial science behind breeding healthy and productive livestock.
Published: Wednesday, 20th May 2015
Researcher Takayuki Suzuki from the NARO Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Centre has joined SRUC on a six month secondment to study nematodes in sweet potatoes, carrots and radish.
Published: Wednesday, 6th May 2015
Analysis of Scottish farm income figures over 14 years shows little change in the gap between the highest and lowest earning business, despite Government/ EU inspired policy shifts or price movements.
Published: Wednesday, 6th May 2015
Collaboration between Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and Ecometrica could unlock tens of millions for investment in biomass energy.
Published: Wednesday, 6th May 2015
The most recent survey by Scotland’s Rural College indicates that after two years of record numbers, Leatherjacket densities have plummeted.
Published: Wednesday, 6th May 2015
First year PhD student Kyran Maloney, based at the Edinburgh campus of Scotland’s Rural College, joined other AHDB-funded researchers at a conference organised by levy bodies HGCA and the Potato Council.
Published: Wednesday, 6th May 2015
SRUC’s Research Division recently hosted a successful workshop discussing how to “turn agricultural greenhouse gas research into action”.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd April 2015
Respected SRUC researcher Dr Mizeck Chagunda received a Special Achievement award recently at the Malawi Association UK’s national awards ceremony in Leicester.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd April 2015
SRUC’s scientists and postgraduate students held a very successful event at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh last week as part of Edinburgh’s International Science Festival.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd April 2015
Scotland’s Rural College farms at Broxburn, Dumfries and Crianlarich are welcoming in the public on or around Open Farm Sunday on 7 June 2015.
Published: Wednesday, 8th April 2015
Experts from Scotland’s Rural College are to play a full part in the Action Johne's Initiative launched recently by the UK dairy industry.
Published: Wednesday, 8th April 2015
Researchers from Scotland Rural College are playing a key role in a major new partnership driving genetic improvement in the UK sheep industry through the use of commercial data in its evaluations.
Published: Wednesday, 8th April 2015
SRUC researcher Dale Sandercock is contributing to a Newcastle University led project looking for markers identifying pigs at risk from a painful and degenerative joint disease.
Published: Wednesday, 8th April 2015
Dr Artur Steiner of SRUC’s Rural Policy Centre, visited Finland where he is collaborating on a programme focusing on improving the health, both physical and mental, of isolated rural communities.
Published: Wednesday, 25th March 2015
Scotland’s Rural College’s annual postgraduate conference saw final year researcher Sarah Ison win the top prize and she will go on to represent SRUC at an inter research institute competition.
Published: Wednesday, 25th March 2015
All three SRUC Divisions were represented at the initial meeting in Edinburgh of an SRUC led, EU funded, research project into the challenges parasites pose for organic farming.
Published: Wednesday, 11th March 2015
Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) are appealing to livestock and poultry farmers across Scotland to take part in a short survey to discover what farmers think of animal health planning.
Published: Wednesday, 4th March 2015
Scottish scientists gathered in Lochgilphead on 19 February to share their findings with the local community following the trial reintroduction of beavers into the wild in Knapdale, Argyll & Bute.
Published: Wednesday, 4th March 2015
The catalogue of SRUC’s short, practical field guides has been extended and revised with a number of additions to the list available on the SRUC website.
Published: Wednesday, 18th February 2015
Minette Batters, Deputy President of the National Farmers Union of England and Wales visited Easter Bush this week to learn more about the research there.
Published: Wednesday, 18th February 2015
Students on the Introduction to Land Based Studies course at the Elmwood campus of Scotland’s Rural College recently spent two days bridge building at SRUC’s hill farms near Crianlarich.
Published: Wednesday, 18th February 2015
Highlighting the agricultural efficiency, nutrient and pollution management benefits gained from well managed drainage systems was the focus of an event at SRUC's Kirkton and Auchtertyre farms.
Published: Wednesday, 11th February 2015
SRUC staff will be among those mentoring 16 African PhD students in a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported programme to enhance the health and productivity of livestock.
Published: Wednesday, 11th February 2015
Despite having to deal with snow, ice and floods SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre hill research farms have begun to prepare for the year ahead, reports Professor Davy McCracken.
Published: Wednesday, 28th January 2015
Introducing SRUC’s latest list of recommended cereal varieties Dr Steve Hoad of SRUC’s Crop and Soil Systems group stressed the need for growers to make decisions based on good intelligence.
Published: Wednesday, 28th January 2015
Innovative farmers explaining their ideas proved a highlight during recent cereal grower events organised Scotland’s Rural College and sector levy body HGCA.
Published: Thursday, 15th January 2015
Scotland’s Rural Colleges’ Crichton Royal Farm is now a site for a UK wide programme using cosmic rays to help measure soil moisture and greenhouse gas emissions.
Published: Thursday, 15th January 2015
Scotland’s Rural College researchers are members of the Glasgow University led BUG Consortium just awarded £2.9m to tackle anthelmintic resistance in nematodes.
Published: Thursday, 15th January 2015
Smart Farming, definitions of sustainable intensification, calls for more near market research and knowledge exchange all featured strongly at this year’s Oxford Farming Conference.
Published: Thursday, 15th January 2015
Dr Maree Brennan, from SRUC Crop & Soils Systems group and colleagues from the James Hutton Institute attended the Drambusters Whisky Festival and explained how research contributes to the industry.
Published: Thursday, 15th January 2015
With Scotland’s potato growers reeling from the fall in demand for fresh potatoes and low prices from over-supply, a conference in Perth will stress the positive messages for an important industry.
Published: Monday, 5th January 2015
A passion for doing a good job and the rewards of paying close attention to detail will come across when a respected Strichen farmer explains his approach to successful cereal production on 21 Jan.
Published: Thursday, 18th December 2014
Agricultural and veterinary research at SRUC and the University of Edinburgh has been ranked as most powerful in the UK in the Research Excellence Framework (REF).
Published: Wednesday, 17th December 2014
Experts from Scotland’s Rural College were recently joined by partners in showcasing progress of research, much of it Scottish Government funded, in efficient beef production.
Published: Wednesday, 17th December 2014
The SMART farming technology showcase organised by the Research Division of Scotland’s Rural College drew an attentive crowd.
Published: Wednesday, 17th December 2014
A PhD student with Scotland’s Rural College won the recent British Poultry Council Scholarship Award for her work on digestive problems in poultry.
Published: Wednesday, 17th December 2014
Simon Turner and Laura Dixon from the Veterinary Science Research Group of Scotland’s Rural College spoke recently about research into pig and poultry welfare at the Chinese Veterinary Conference.
Published: Wednesday, 17th December 2014
Building yields will be the focus of three events for cereal growers, beginning in the Borders at The Lodge, Carfraemill on Tuesday 13 January.
Published: Wednesday, 17th December 2014
At a recent high level animal welfare conference in Brazil Research Economist Bouda Vosough Ahmadi, explained how SRUC research can improve animal welfare without losing productivity.
Published: Wednesday, 10th December 2014
With price pressures and reductions in CAP funding many farmers are looking hard at the efficiency of their businesses and the way they use resources like energy, nutrients, soil, slurry and water.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Tasting panels and the latest computerised scanning techniques are to be used in a research project between Morrisons and SRUC aimed at improving the eating quality and production of UK lamb.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
SRUC research giving a snapshot of how UK dairy farmers house and feed their herds has been published in the official journal of the American Dairy Science Association.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
Progress with some of SRUC’s research of grain quality in malting barley was presented to the latest meeting of the BBSRC’s Crop Improvement Research Club.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd December 2014
A consortium of continental researchers, including Professor Davy McCracken of SRUC, have had the importance of their research into High Nature Value Farming recognised by the European Commission.
Published: Wednesday, 19th November 2014
A grassland researcher with Scotland’s Rural College is warning farmers that soil compaction can lead to the loss of nearly a quarter of spring grass yields. By taking more care with machinery and livestock they can reduce that loss and cut the farm’s greenhouse gas emissions substantially.
Published: Wednesday, 19th November 2014
Professor Louise Heathwaite, the Scottish Government’s Scientific Advisor, recently paid a visit to SRUC's Dairy Research Centre at the Crichton Royal Farm in Dumfries and spoke to SRUC researchers.
Published: Wednesday, 19th November 2014
SRUC’s Crichton Farm in Dumfries welcomed 150 pupils from Annan Academy for a Food and Farming Day organised by the Royal Highland Educational Trust (RHET).
Published: Wednesday, 19th November 2014
SRUC research and education staff teamed up to tell the public about the science of farming in the latest Talking Science showcase.
Published: Wednesday, 19th November 2014
Professor Andy Peters from the International Office of Scotland’s Rural College recently hosted a visit from a delegation from the Ministry of Industry and IT Technology in China.
Published: Tuesday, 18th November 2014
SAC Consulting will be running a series of three Beef Health Seminars across the region at the beginning of December.
Published: Tuesday, 11th November 2014
The potential impact on beef cattle breeding of new research into the effect populations of rumen microbes have on feed efficiency and methane emissions will be presented at an upcoming SRUC event.
Published: Monday, 10th November 2014
A free event organised by Scotland’s Rural College on Thursday 27 November at Woodhouselee farm on the A703 south of Edinburgh, will review some of the latest SMART Farming research and technology.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
Farmers need to be reminded just how beneficial growing peas and beans can be to their businesses and the environment.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
Scotland’s Rural College has enhanced its service to the dairy industry.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
The Rural Scotland Refocused event in Edinburgh saw more than eighty representatives from organisations involved with rural communities come together to discuss where rural Scotland should be in 2035.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
Scotland’s Rural College has launched a new Monogastric Science Research Centre, a focus for the College’s work on pigs and poultry, in particular bringing together vital research on nutrition.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
As a member of the Easter Bush Research Consortium, SRUC is collaborating with animal health company Zoetis in a new European centre to identify emerging diseases in livestock and companion animals.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
Talking Science made its way up to SRUC’s Kirkton and Auchtertyre Farm this weekend to showcase Scottish science.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
Researchers in Edinburgh have been awarded £479,000 by the UK Government’s Rural Affairs Department (Defra) to study teenagers’ attitudes and behaviour towards animals.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
SRUC’s Dairy Research and Innovation Centre in Dumfries recently hosted 15 scientists from the French Livestock Institute (IDELE) and left having identified several opportunities for collaboration.
Published: Wednesday, 29th October 2014
There was a decidedly international flavour when SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre, near Crianlarich, hosted visits from two separate groups on the same day.
Published: Monday, 27th October 2014
While the falling price of milk is bringing some groups of dairy farmers onto the streets in protest every producer is having to take a long hard look at their costs.
Published: Tuesday, 21st October 2014
Balancing biodiversity and climate change with the need to feed our growing population is a key focus of much of the research at Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Thursday, 16th October 2014
SRUC’s Kirkton and Auchtertyre Research Farm is throwing open its gates to welcome the public for a free day of scientific discovery. The farm will be open from 12pm – 4pm on Sunday 26 October.
Published: Wednesday, 15th October 2014
The exciting science of modern day land use will be on display at the Future of Farming and Forestry Fun Day at SRUC Barony on Saturday 1 November.
Published: Wednesday, 15th October 2014
Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) is enjoying one of the most exciting periods in its 100 year history, Chairman Lord Jamie Lindsay has said.
Published: Wednesday, 15th October 2014
SRUC Oatridge Campus lecturers, the Loch Lomond and Trossachs Skills Partnership, school pupils and local businesses met recently to explore the opportunities for young people in activity tourism.
Published: Wednesday, 15th October 2014
Scotland’s Rural College is one of 22 research organisations contributing to Defra’s new £4.2m series of projects investigating ways to increase production through sustainable intensification.
Published: Wednesday, 15th October 2014
Research economists from SRUC have just returned from Finland where they shared an award and presented talks at an international seminar on issues linked to animal production and climate change.
Published: Wednesday, 15th October 2014
Three leading researchers from Scotland’s Rural College travelled to Copenhagen to take a leading part in a special event at the European Federation of Animal Science (EAAP).
Published: Wednesday, 15th October 2014
Inverary, Argyll, was the latest stop for SRUC’s Talking Science project, which aims to get people thinking about how our landscape could change over the next 50 years.
Published: Wednesday, 1st October 2014
Two of SRUC’s experts on soil and agriculture delivered their inaugural lectures in Aberdeen recently.
Published: Wednesday, 1st October 2014
Dr Artur Steiner, who is a researcher with SRUC’s Land Economy, Environment and Society Group, has a won a role as a visiting scholar at the Ruralia Institute.
Published: Thursday, 18th September 2014
With the question of food security a growing issue worldwide, two SRUC experts will deliver public lectures in Aberdeen which tackle one of the fundamentals when it comes to producing food.
Published: Thursday, 18th September 2014
Dumfries-based SRUC Researcher Dr Mizeck Chagunda, Reader in Dairy Science, has been appointed as an adviser to an international research programme operating in sub Sarahan Africa.
Published: Wednesday, 10th September 2014
Young people are vital to the future of Scotland’s rural areas: they bring ideas, energy, enthusiasm and skills.
Published: Tuesday, 2nd September 2014
Last week saw a very successful Open Day at SRUC’s Kirkton & Auchtertyre hill farms.
Published: Tuesday, 26th August 2014
Scientists from Scotland’s Rural College are inviting farmers’ help for a GB wide dung sample survey investigating the prevalence of E. coli O157 infection amongst cattle destined for the food chain.
Published: Tuesday, 26th August 2014
The new Life Sciences Minister George Freeman met with SRUC’s Vice Principal Research Geoff Simm on a recent tour of the Roslin Institute Building.
Published: Tuesday, 26th August 2014
Animal welfare scientists are helping Sainsbury’s identify ‘good mums’ for free farrowing systems on their pig farms.
Published: Tuesday, 26th August 2014
There will be much to hear about and see during the Open Day planned by Scotland’s Rural College at their Kirkton & Auchtertyre hill farms, near Crianlarich, on Wednesday 3 September.
Published: Tuesday, 26th August 2014
Dr Jill Mackay, an animal behaviour and welfare researcher with Scotland’s Rural College, was invited to speak in Taiwan at an annual meeting organised by World Animal Protection.
Published: Wednesday, 13th August 2014
Professor Mike Coffey, Leader of the Animal Breeding and Genomics Team of Scotland’s Rural College and Head of EGENES has been appointed to the Government’s Farm Animal Genetic Resources Committee.
Published: Wednesday, 13th August 2014
Prof Louise Heathwaite, the Scottish Government’s Chief Scientific Advisor on Rural Affairs & Environment, visited SRUC last week to speak with SRUC senior research staff.
Published: Wednesday, 13th August 2014
Research and education staff at Scotland’s Rural College have been kept busy over the summer with public engagement activities as part of a Government-funded Talking Science grant.
Published: Wednesday, 13th August 2014
Scotland’s Rural College's Kirkton and Auchertyre farms recently hosted the latest meeting of the farmers' group focused on grassland management in the uplands.
Published: Wednesday, 13th August 2014
Professor Davy McCracken, Head of the SRUC Hill & Mountain Research Centre, has just returned from Galicia, in north-west Spain, where he had been invited to speak at a Summer School.
Published: Tuesday, 29th July 2014
SRUC and the University of Edinburgh showcased their research and development work on livestock breeding and genetics during a learning visit from Bill Gates, of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Published: Tuesday, 29th July 2014
Challenges faced by livestock farmers in tropical developing countries are the focus of a new alliance involving researchers from Scotland and Africa.
Published: Tuesday, 29th July 2014
Lord de Mauley, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for natural environment and science, visited the University of Edinburgh’s Easter Bush Campus.
Published: Tuesday, 29th July 2014
Researchers at the John Innes Centre and SRUC have found that barley plants which are tolerant to drought also have improved resistance to Ramularia leaf spot.
Published: Tuesday, 29th July 2014
SRUC agricultural economist Professor Dominic Moran has been recently appointed co-chair of a group which encourages collaboration between the UK and China on issues of agriculture and climate change.
Published: Tuesday, 29th July 2014
SRUC manages seven farms to provide research, education and knowledge transfer resources linked primarily to its applied research programme.
Published: Tuesday, 15th July 2014
More than 160 graduands attended the Scotland’s Rural College graduation ceremony on 11 July 2014 at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow.
Published: Tuesday, 15th July 2014
Nigel Miller, President of NFU Scotland, has been awarded an Honorary Fellowship of Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Tuesday, 15th July 2014
Dr Lutz Bunger, was conferred as Professor of Growth Genetics at SRUC’s Graduation ceremony in Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on 11 July 2014.
Published: Tuesday, 15th July 2014
Dr Simon Turner, an internationally recognised expert on aggressiveness in farm animals was awarded a Readership by Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Tuesday, 15th July 2014
Gavin Hill, Assistant Regional Manager for SAC Consulting, is the latest recipient of the RC Stewart Prize.
Published: Tuesday, 15th July 2014
Lecturer Dr Lou Ralph was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Award by students from Scotland’s Rural College in Aberdeen.
Published: Tuesday, 15th July 2014
Newly published research into soil microbes shows how, eventually, farmers might reduce greenhouse gas production through the way they manage their soils.
Published: Wednesday, 9th July 2014
Researcher Eileen Wall, Reader in Integrative Animal Sciences with Scotland’s Rural College, is one of 43 new members of the Royal Society of Edinburgh’s Young Academy of Scotland (YAS).
Published: Wednesday, 9th July 2014
Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College are part of a new tree health project designed to protect Scotland’s national tree, the Scots pine, from new pests and diseases.
Published: Wednesday, 9th July 2014
Once again avian scientists from Scotland’s Rural College played a key role in the recent Scottish Egg Quality Awards, acting as independent judges for the annual industry event.
Published: Wednesday, 25th June 2014
Interactivity, high tech farming, Trolley the Sheep and chocolate all played their part in a busy and successful Royal Highland Show for Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 25th June 2014
Researchers at Scotland’s Rural College have recently launched a new video on electronic identification of sheep (EID).
Published: Wednesday, 18th June 2014
The displays have been printed, the staff rota is complete, and the pavilion stands ready, awaiting the thousands of visitors who will pour through the doors over the next few days.
Published: Wednesday, 18th June 2014
Cabinet Secretary for Food Richard Lochhead will launch Scotland’s Chocolate Trail at the Royal Highland Show on Friday.
Published: Wednesday, 4th June 2014
Nearly 60% of over-60s in rural Scotland are living in fuel poverty - evidence that the rural poor and disadvantaged are often ‘falling through the cracks’, according to the new SRUC report.
Published: Wednesday, 4th June 2014
Generations of cooks have known that seasoning chicken with herbs like sage, basil and thyme adds to our eating pleasure.
Published: Wednesday, 4th June 2014
Scotland’s Rural College has formalised a bond with Zhejiang Agriculture and Forestry University following the recent signing in Edinburgh of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU).
Published: Wednesday, 4th June 2014
More than 20 trainers and trainees from across Europe met at Scotland’s Rural College in Edinburgh recently to learn more about CT scanning of livestock.
Published: Wednesday, 4th June 2014
A presentation, made to the recent British Society of Animal Science conference in Nottingham, by second year PhD student Sokratis Ptochos of SRUC Disease Systems, won him a certificate and prize.
Published: Thursday, 29th May 2014
A number of staff from Scotland’s Rural College were on duty at the successful Grass Tech Event held near Elgin by the Royal Northern Agricultural Society.
Published: Thursday, 29th May 2014
SRUC Researcher Dr Vicky Sandilands recently joined 32 other specialists at a workshop in the Swiss city of Bern to discuss keel bone damage in laying hens.
Published: Thursday, 29th May 2014
A new web based tool for farmers needing to know how efficiently they are using resources has been launched by the Consulting Division of Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Tuesday, 6th May 2014
A researcher from Scotland’s Rural College has embarked on a long-term study which aims to increase insect pollinators in commercial orchards.
Published: Tuesday, 6th May 2014
A leading animal geneticist from Scotland’s Rural College has been presented with a prestigious award for her contribution to the livestock industry.
Published: Tuesday, 6th May 2014
SRUC researchers and lecturers will join colleagues from SAC Consulting at GrassTech, the specialist grassland event held near Elgin by the Royal Northern Agricultural Society, on Tuesday 27 May.
Published: Tuesday, 6th May 2014
Get ready for a family day filled with fun and adventure at the SRUC Barony Campus Open Day!
Published: Tuesday, 6th May 2014
Scientists from Scotland’s Rural College were almost overrun with visitors at two fascinating and fun workshops held as part of this year’s International Science Festival in Edinburgh.
Published: Wednesday, 30th April 2014
Farmers, groundsmen and park keepers across Scotland are warned leatherjacket densities are at their highest recorded levels in 39 years.
Published: Wednesday, 30th April 2014
A new briefing by Crichton Institute warns that Dumfries and Galloway is predicted to soon be responsible for 18% of Scotland’s onshore wind energy capacity.
Published: Wednesday, 30th April 2014
Progress is being made in drawing together the issues involved in making better use of our land, but there is more to do in developing our understanding of, and communication about, pressures.
Published: Wednesday, 30th April 2014
Dr Fiona Borthwick and 10 MSc Food Security students from Scotland’s Rural College/University of Edinburgh have recently returned from a ten day study tour taking in Paris and Rome.
Published: Wednesday, 16th April 2014
Research from SRUC has found that greenhouse gas emissions from dairy cattle can be significantly reduced through housing dairy cows all year round and breeding them for increased productivity.
Published: Wednesday, 16th April 2014
Increased collaboration between local authorities, academics, third and private sectors would raise Southern Scotland's profile nationally and beyond, says a new briefing by the Crichton Institute.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd April 2014
Dr Jos Houdijk, a researcher with Scotland’s Rural College, is leading a research consortium re-examining the nutritional value of Oil Seed Rape meal fed to pigs and poultry.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd April 2014
Andrew Taylor, a second year student studying BSc (Hons) Agriculture at Scotland’s Rural College in Ayr has won the prestigious Dairy Student of the Year competition.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd April 2014
The 2014 SRUC/SEPA conference to be held in Edinburgh on 15 and 16 April will address the issues involved in delivering multiple benefits from our land.
Published: Tuesday, 25th March 2014
Some of SRUC’s female researchers have been out and about telling young girls (and boys in some cases!) why they should consider a career in science.
Published: Friday, 21st March 2014
Local students who wowed art competition judges received their prizes at an Awards Ceremony held at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) last night.
Published: Wednesday, 12th March 2014
Recently a group of 14 staff and students from Siena College in New York visited Scotland's Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 5th March 2014
Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) are working on a new a new campaign to tackle a disease in cattle that costs the UK economy £300m each year.
Published: Wednesday, 5th March 2014
Cabinet Secretary Richard Lochhead was one of many who emphasized the need to support new farmers at a recent New Entrants to Farming Gathering held at Murrayfield.
Published: Wednesday, 5th March 2014
SRUC’s Kirkton and Auchtertyre Farms have been busy demonstrating their many research projects over the last few weeks.
Published: Wednesday, 5th March 2014
Professor Cathy Dwyer and Dr Fritha Langford from the Animal Behaviour and Welfare Team of Scotland’s Rural College have just returned from a conference in India.
Published: Wednesday, 5th March 2014
A class of students from the Harper Adams University College in England visited several of SRUC’s research sites during a study tour to Scotland coordinated by SRUC's Dr Jo Conington.
Published: Wednesday, 26th February 2014
Members of the Scottish Parliament have paid a visit to the SRUC’s Green Cow project at the Beef & Sheep Research Centre near Edinburgh.
Published: Wednesday, 26th February 2014
Researchers have received over £1 million to identify why a fungus that initially lives in harmony on a barley plant, turns into a deadly pathogen which then attacks on its host.
Published: Wednesday, 26th February 2014
Researchers at Scotland’s Rural College have begun a trial to test the effectiveness of using a CT scanner for selecting rams which sire lambs with an increased yield of useable meat.
Published: Wednesday, 26th February 2014
Four of SRUC's newest professors spoke about their career pathway and research highlights at their recent inaugural lectures.
Published: Wednesday, 26th February 2014
Ecosystems Economist Dr Klaus Glenk, a member of SRUC’s Land Economy and Environment Group, has won an award presented by the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
Published: Wednesday, 26th February 2014
SRUC Crop Science Team Leader Dr Steve Hoad gave a technical presentation on grain skinning during this year’s Maltsters Association of Great Britain event in Inverness on 13 February.
Published: Wednesday, 26th February 2014
A party of 6 PhD students from the Balassi Institute in Budapest recently spent 2 days with the Crops and Soils research group from Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 5th February 2014
SRUC’s Research Division has recently made three appointments to farm-related leadership posts.
Published: Wednesday, 5th February 2014
SRUC and the Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority (Teagasc), have begun a research project that will help growers and gardeners improve their soil by encouraging beneficial soil organisms.
Published: Wednesday, 5th February 2014
In an industry first UK Maize growers are holding their annual conference in Scotland, where their Chairman Hugh McClymont is manager of SRUC Crichton Royal Farms at Dumfries.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd January 2014
Two Environment and Design Consultants from SRUC, Dr’s Bill Crooks and Alex Sinclair, are among an international group of scientists contributing to new research on the importance soil microbes.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd January 2014
Two experts from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) are to deliver public lectures in Edinburgh on the crucial science of breeding healthy and productive livestock.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd January 2014
A meeting with Professor Christine Watson, Leader of SRUC’s Soil and Systems team, sent a group of Edinburgh Primary teachers home enthused about what their pupils can learn through soil.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd January 2014
The latest recommendations on cereal varieties are now available to growers on the Scotland’s Rural College website.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd January 2014
Sited at 500m above sea level the Met Office weather station at SRUC’s Hill & Mountain Research Centre near Crianlarich offers statistics and an insight into the past season.
Published: Tuesday, 21st January 2014
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has awarded £400,000 to researchers who will investigate how to improve the diets of broiler breeder chickens.
Published: Wednesday, 15th January 2014
Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) have been awarded £580,000 to study possible ways to reduce pig aggression, to improve welfare and the economic benefits to farmers.
Published: Wednesday, 15th January 2014
Farmers attending the first of the series of SRUC-HGCA agronomy workshops went home with a lot to think about.
Published: Wednesday, 15th January 2014
Thousands of West Highland Way walkers pass through SRUC’s Kirkton and Auchtertyre farms every year.
Published: Wednesday, 15th January 2014
Dr Maree Brennan, a Crop and Soils researcher with Scotland’s Rural College, played a prominent part at the recent meeting of the Crop Improvement Research Club (CIRC) in Edinburgh.
Published: Tuesday, 17th December 2013
The importance of good soil health and structure will be a key discussion point during the cereal growers workshops planned for the New Year.
Published: Tuesday, 17th December 2013
New research at Scotland’s Rural College is seeking to discover better ways to predict an outbreak of light leaf spot in oilseed rape crops.
Published: Thursday, 28th November 2013
As part of the first RHET week Scotland’s Rural College researchers in the east and west of Scotland have been teaching local kids about farming, and the science surrounding agriculture.
Published: Thursday, 21st November 2013
Staff and students have fun for Children in Need.
Published: Thursday, 21st November 2013
Animal science dominated the last couple of days of Dundee Science Festival as SRUC scientists entertained and educated young and old alike.
Published: Thursday, 21st November 2013
The Scottish Rural Colleges’ Crichton Royal, Dairy Research Centre in Dumfries has been even more of a hive of activity than normal recently.
Published: Wednesday, 13th November 2013
Last week saw two very different science festival events organised by SRUC researchers with very different areas of expertise.
Published: Wednesday, 13th November 2013
Researcher Professor Alistair Stott, Group Manger Future Farming Systems with Scotland’s Rural College, was amongst the speakers at the 3rd Animal Task Force Seminar, held recently in Brussels.
Published: Wednesday, 13th November 2013
Specialists from Scotland’s Rural College played an active part in the latest, biennial, Sheep Breeders Round Table held near Nottingham.
Published: Wednesday, 6th November 2013
The GreenCow research facilities at Scotland’s Rural College in Edinburgh provided the backdrop to a visit from representatives of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Published: Wednesday, 6th November 2013
In recognition of the quality of her research PhD Student Laura Beeson, has been awarded the British Poultry Council (BPC) Scholarship for 2013.
Published: Wednesday, 23rd October 2013
While the routine work of Scotland’s Rural College’s CT Scanning Unit is now over for the year the team will not be hibernating for the winter.
Published: Tuesday, 15th October 2013
The recent David Livingstone Day held at SRUC’s Crichton Royal Research Farm saw hundreds of locals come together to discuss and celebrate the life of the Scottish explorer and missionary.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd October 2013
The Head of the Carbon Management Centre at Scotland’s Rural College argues the recent target set by a UN Report is too high for British farming to achieve.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd October 2013
Delegates at a recent international environment conference were introduced to the concept of urban agriculture in Edinburgh.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd October 2013
Dr Tom McEvoy, an Animal Science Lecturer at Scotland’s Rural College has just returned from Istanbul where he was presented with the European Embryo Transfer Association’s Pioneer Award.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd October 2013
Last week’s highly successful SRUC conference discussed the vital new concept of sustainable intensification: producing more food while minimising our environmental impact.
Published: Wednesday, 2nd October 2013
Economists from the Land Economy and Environment Team at Scotland’s Rural College recently attended a conference in Tunisia, coming away with an award and glowing reports.
Published: Wednesday, 25th September 2013
A conference organised by Scotland’s Rural College will today highlight the need for agriculture to adapt to help tackle the growing issue of global food security.
Published: Wednesday, 25th September 2013
Staff at a Scotland’s Rural College farm on the outskirts of Edinburgh have reported the rare birth of triplet calves.
Published: Thursday, 19th September 2013
Research by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) which measured cows’ behaviour by fitting them with high-tech ‘pedometers’ has won an international science award.
Published: Thursday, 19th September 2013
The Roslin Institute Building, which houses much of SRUC’s Animal and Veterinary Sciences Research Group, swung open its heavy glass doors for Midlothian’s Doors Open Day last weekend.
Published: Thursday, 19th September 2013
This SRUC event aims to bring together the many people in Dumfries and Galloway who have an interest in Sub-Saharan Africa, or are involved in projects in that region.
Published: Thursday, 19th September 2013
Professor Davy McCracken will succeed Dr Tony Waterhouse as Head of SRUC’s Hill and Mountain Research Centre.
Published: Wednesday, 11th September 2013
A project which aims to end tail docking of pigs was launched this month.
Published: Wednesday, 11th September 2013
The way we produce and consume food will change dramatically in the coming decades and UK farmers, retailers and manufacturers will have a pivotal role in implementing the UK’s food security agenda.
Published: Wednesday, 11th September 2013
Scotland’s Rural College researcher Dr Mizeck Chagunda took his laser gun to Manchester recently, where the BBC were holding their Energy Day in the surrounds of the Salford Media City.
Published: Wednesday, 11th September 2013
Two students from ENSAT (the French National Institute of Agronomy in Toulouse), have just completed a three month summer work placement with SRUC’s Sustainable Ecosystems Team at Auchincruive.
Published: Wednesday, 14th August 2013
This year’s Potatoes in Practice event was described as the best ever.
Published: Wednesday, 14th August 2013
SRUC Poultry PhD student Adekunle Adebiyi, based at Auchincruive and supervised by Dr Oluyinka Olukosi, recently received the Jones-Hamilton Co. Graduate Student Travel Grant Award.
Published: Wednesday, 14th August 2013
The most recent edition of a major US journal Rangeland Ecology and Management has used a paper by SRUC’s Hill and Mountain Research team as its featured article.
Published: Wednesday, 24th July 2013
SRUC’s Principal and Chief Executive has welcomed this week’s launch of the UK Agricultural Technologies Strategy.
Published: Wednesday, 24th July 2013
A group from the Waitrose Farming Partnership ambled up north this week to visit Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 24th July 2013
SRUC researchers recently contributed to a new report identifying key adaptation measures that could help the natural environment cope with anticipated climate change.
Published: Wednesday, 17th July 2013
Researcher Natalie Pickering from New Zealand’s AgResearch organisation is in Edinburgh working with animal science researchers from Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 17th July 2013
An SRUC researcher is on the hunt for help to assess the Scottish Government's Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES).
Published: Wednesday, 10th July 2013
On a softly shimmering July day, in the elegant confines of Glasgow University’s Bute Hall, over a thousand happy souls sat; joy mingled with anxiety which bumped up against sheer unadulterated relief
Published: Wednesday, 10th July 2013
The way farmers are being urged to tackle climate change has been challenged by SRUC researchers in a paper published in prestigious journal Nature Climate Change.
Published: Wednesday, 10th July 2013
The first Honorary Fellowship of Scotland’s Rural College was one of several awards given to many deserving people on a glorious graduation day in July.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
SRUC has become a partner in the Centre of Excellence for UK Farming (CEUKF), an agri-food supply-chains alliance to help UK farming address production and sustainability challenges.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Staff linked to the Rural Policy Centre of Scotland’s Rural College were busy in the aftermath of the agreement in Brussels over the reforms of the Common Agricultural Policy.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Persistent rain didn’t deter about one hundred hardy souls gathering for this year’s Cereals in Practice event, but farmers will be hoping to see a lot more sunshine this month.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Dr Tony Edwards has been awarded a Personal Professorship at SRUC’s graduation ceremony, held at the Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on 5th July.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Dr Bryan Griffiths has been awarded a Personal Professorship at SRUC’s graduation ceremony, held at the Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on 5th July.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Dr Mike Coffey, Team Leader Animal Breeding & Genomics, received the conferment as Professor of Livestock Informatics at SRUC’s Graduation ceremony in Bute Hall, University of Glasgow, on 5 July 2013.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Four researchers were awarded Readerships at SRUC’s annual graduation ceremony at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on 5 July 2013.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Dr Mike Hutchings has been awarded a Personal Professorship at SRUC’s graduation ceremony at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on 5 July 2013.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Dr Bob Rees has been presented with a Personal Professorship at SRUC’s graduation ceremony at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on 5 July 2013.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Dr Christine Watson, Team Leader Soil Science and Systems, was awarded a Personal Professorship at SRUC’s graduation ceremony at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on 5 July 2013.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Dr Davy McCracken was awarded a Personal Professorship in Agricultural Ecology at SRUC’s annual graduation at Bute Hall, University of Glasgow on 5 July 13.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
Researchers from Scotland’s Rural College have explained how Laser Methane Detectors (LMD) could provide a quick but reliable method of estimating of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) from livestock.
Published: Wednesday, 3rd July 2013
The pulling power of SRUC’s Bush Research Farms, including the GreenCow facility was much in evidence during Highland Show week.
Published: Wednesday, 26th June 2013
Three SRUC researchers were in Blantyre, Malawi for this year’s World Milk Day, which the country has been participating in since its inception in 2001.
Published: Wednesday, 26th June 2013
Ecology Masters students studying in Edinburgh have just returned from a study tour in Tanzania where they observed the real-life conflict between development and conservation in Africa.
Published: Wednesday, 26th June 2013
Scotland’s Rural Colleges links with Brazil continue with a visit by a delegation of sheep breeders specifically interested in the work of the CT unit.
Published: Wednesday, 19th June 2013
Researchers from the Moredun Research Institute and SRUC have received a major funding award.
Published: Wednesday, 19th June 2013
Staff from Land Economy and Environmental Research (LEERG) have been out and about in the Hermitage of Braid on the south side of Edinburgh, carrying out the OPAL tree health survey.
Published: Wednesday, 12th June 2013
While most mothers try to take it easy in those last weeks of pregnancy, new research involving SRUC has found that reducing stress may be vitally important for foetal brain development.
Published: Wednesday, 12th June 2013
While sheep and pigs are regular visitors to SRUC’s CT scanning unit, staff had to get inventive when they were asked to scan 100 live fish.
Published: Wednesday, 12th June 2013
EGENES, or Edinburgh GENetic Evaluation Services, is a unit running with the Animal and Veterinary Science Research Group at SRUC which is based at the Roslin Institute Building.
Published: Wednesday, 12th June 2013
The sale of eggs, surplus to the requirements of the SRUC/BOCM Pauls Egg Quality Competition has raised £345 for the charity, Combat Stress.
Published: Wednesday, 5th June 2013
Policymakers expecting volunteers to play a bigger role in delivering local services may need to re-think their strategy for rural areas, according to research led by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC).
Published: Wednesday, 5th June 2013
It is exactly a year since we launched the second edition of Rural Scotland in Focus, first published in 2010.
Published: Wednesday, 29th May 2013
SRUC researchers are investigating how the experiences of pregnant goats can affect their offspring later in life.
Published: Wednesday, 29th May 2013
Farmers gathered near Crianlarich recently, at the Scotland’s Rural College Kirkton and Auchtertyre farms open day to hear about the ongoing research projects.
Published: Wednesday, 29th May 2013
Kirkton served as a learning ground for seven students and one professor from Texas A&M University (College Station) when they attended the Open Day at SRUC Kirkton and Auchtertyre Units.
Published: Wednesday, 29th May 2013
SRUC Researchers Dr Maree Brennan and Monika Lenty presented their work at a recent dissemination event in Cambridge.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd May 2013
As concerns over pesticides such as neonicotinoids grow, SRUC is to work with the James Hutton Institute on a new research programme looking into ways of activating a plant’s natural defences instead.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd May 2013
Issues linked to intensive farming were examined during special public lectures by two recently appointed SRUC Professors.
Published: Wednesday, 22nd May 2013
SRUC’s Crop Protection team is part of the Crop and Soil Systems Research Group.
Published: Wednesday, 8th May 2013
SRUC Warns the Hard Winter Has Not Stopped March of the Daddy-long-legs grubs!
Published: Wednesday, 8th May 2013
Seven students studying the SRUC/University of Edinburgh MSc on Food Security have just returned from Rome.
Published: Wednesday, 1st May 2013
Farmers and Crofters hoping the suffering liver fluke is presently causing their sheep and cattle won't be repeated should take note of future forecasts.
Published: Wednesday, 1st May 2013
A new web-based early warning service to help farmers decide when to protect their sheep from flies has been launched by the National Sheep Association and Scotland’s Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 1st May 2013
For the first time this year SRUC’s 2014 undergraduate prospectus can be downloaded as an app, from the App Store or Google Play.
Published: Wednesday, 1st May 2013
Professor George Wiggans, from the United States Department for Agriculture (Usda), is visiting SRUC for two weeks to work with staff from EGENES.
Published: Wednesday, 1st May 2013
SRUC’s Head of Animal and Veterinary Science, Professor Alistair Lawrence, was recently invited to speak to higher level students at George Watson’s College in Edinburgh.
Published: Wednesday, 24th April 2013
SRUC’s Professor Cathy Dwyer recently won a prestigious prize for her work in animal welfare; the Award for Innovation Developments in Animal Welfare.
Published: Wednesday, 24th April 2013
According to SRUC’s Vice Principal of Research the genetic resource provided by British farm animals must be considered as important to biodiversity as our wild species.
Published: Wednesday, 24th April 2013
At the spring meeting of the World’s Poultry Science Association (WPSA) two students from Scotland’s Rural College were each given the President’s Prize for their presentations.
Published: Wednesday, 24th April 2013
It is no easy task in today’s financial climate to improve business profitability but Scotland’s Rural College is running a workshop to help food and drink businesses do just that.
Published: Wednesday, 10th April 2013
SRUC scientists donned their green jumpers and ventured out to the Botanic Gardens to introduce innumerable young science buffs to the delights of DNA and thermal imaging, among other things.
Published: Wednesday, 10th April 2013
It was no dream - Marta Piotrowska returned from a Californian Research Conference with an award for her poster.
Published: Wednesday, 10th April 2013
Sustainable intensification, the idea that we can increase food production without further damage to the environment, has been growing in popularity.
Published: Wednesday, 27th March 2013
Scotland's Rural College (SRUC) and the James Hutton Institute have asked farmers to complete a survey to help to guide policy makers after CAP reform.
Published: Wednesday, 27th March 2013
As Easter draws closer, many parents may be wondering how they will entertain their little ones over the holidays.
Published: Wednesday, 27th March 2013
Frustrated crop trials staff at Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) are anxiously waiting for the snow to clear and temperatures to rise.
Published: Tuesday, 26th March 2013
A new online Estimated Breeding Value (EBV) recording service developed by Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) has just been launched by the British Limousin Cattle Society (BLCS).
Published: Wednesday, 20th March 2013
SRUC has just embarked on a new research project looking into grain skinning. Grain skinning is a physical defect in barley; the husk that coats the barley grain becomes weak and then detaches.
Published: Wednesday, 20th March 2013
Dumfries based Senior Researcher Dr Mizeck Chagunda was amongst those invited to dine with the President of Malawi, Her Excellency Mrs. Joyce Banda, in the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle.
Published: Wednesday, 20th March 2013
SRUC’s Professor Dominic Moran recently travelled to Columbia University in New York to assess the work of an international climate modelling project.
Published: Wednesday, 20th March 2013
New to SRUC News is a regular "Getting to Know SRUC" feature.
Published: Tuesday, 19th March 2013
A new SRUC course will provide training in snaring best practice.
Published: Wednesday, 13th March 2013
A freecycle swop shop, habitat creation, a beach tidy and even a pedal power smoothie maker, there was a lot going on at SRUC’s recent Climate Week.
Published: Wednesday, 6th March 2013
Researchers at Scotland’s Rural College have found the breed of the animal makes very little difference to the level of greenhouse gas emissions from cattle.
Published: Wednesday, 6th March 2013
SRUC’s Professor George Gunn was recently awarded £250,000 by Defra to calculate the costs of disease outbreaks in livestock to the English economy.
Published: Wednesday, 6th March 2013
Edinburgh based Animal Science Lecture Dr Tom McEvoy has been invited to Istanbul in September to receive a special award recognising his significant contribution to research into embryo transfer.
Published: Wednesday, 27th February 2013
A series of spring and summer events for livestock farmers has been planned to inform and update farmers on the progress of a research project on Johne’s Disease (paratuberculosis) in Scottish cattle.
Published: Wednesday, 27th February 2013
SRUC researchers are calling on all British farmers to take part in a survey on pain and disease in animals.
Published: Wednesday, 27th February 2013
Staff from across SRUC met at the Elmwood Campus this week to focus on the range of activity linked to food and drink.
Published: Wednesday, 27th February 2013
Research by SRUC helped inform a study recommending the use of livestock feed additives and cattle vaccines should be investigated for the control of E. coli O157 on UK farms.
Published: Wednesday, 20th February 2013
Researchers from SRUC, Scotland’s Rural College hosted a workshop at the Roslin Institute Building on Tuesday 19th Feb, focusing on research linked to the human health attributes of dairy products.
Published: Wednesday, 20th February 2013
There was an SRUC double bill at the latest gathering of the Scottish Fellows and Associates of the Royal Agricultural Societies.
Published: Wednesday, 20th February 2013
Arable specialists Julian Bell and Mark Ballingall recently visited Kiev where they spoke at an agricultural conference.
Published: Wednesday, 6th February 2013
SRUC’s Dr Davy McCracken urged the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee to ensure biodiversity and high nature value farming systems are supported in the coming CAP reform.
Published: Wednesday, 6th February 2013
It’s now five years since SRUC’s researchers first set foot on the somewhat dry and dusty soil of Malawi.
Published: Wednesday, 6th February 2013
It was a tight squeeze at the recent Association of Potato Producers Conference, organised by SAC Consulting on Perth racecourse.
Published: Wednesday, 23rd January 2013
On a recent visit to the Roslin Institute Building in Edinburgh HRH the Princess Royal took time to learn more about SRUC, Scotland’s new Rural College.
Published: Wednesday, 23rd January 2013
SRUC’s Head of Research Professor Geoff Simm led a team of SRUC scientists speaking at the recent Centre of Excellence for UK Farming Conference (CEUKF).
Published: Wednesday, 23rd January 2013
SRUC’s Dr Sarah Skerratt, Head of Land Economy and Environment Research Group, was recently asked to contribute to an Academy of Social Sciences booklet on Scotland.
Published: Wednesday, 9th January 2013
An open event planned for SRUC’s Oatridge campus on January 24th aims to help farmers facing the problems of waterlogged soils.
Published: Wednesday, 9th January 2013
SRUC researcher in Crop and Soil Systems, Maria Borlinghaus, won the John Colhoun poster prize for postgraduate students at the recent British Society of Plant Pathology Presidential Meeting in Norwich.
Published: Wednesday, 12th December 2012
Adekunle Adebiyi, an SRUC PhD student based at Ayr, has been awarded a British Poultry Council Scholarship for his outstanding research.
Published: Wednesday, 12th December 2012
Bob Rees has been to London to argue for policies that take soil more seriously.
Published: Wednesday, 5th December 2012
An SRUC project – led by Professor Dominic Moran – will explore the economics of so-called ‘no regrets’ climate change adaptation measures in farming.
Published: Wednesday, 5th December 2012
SRUC’s Dr Artur Steinerowski has recently returned from a research trip to southern Australia where he began a study on the effects of private companies on rural communities.
Published: Wednesday, 5th December 2012
SRUC Rural Sustainability Researcher Dr Clare Hall has joined the DEFRA team tackling the outbreak of Chalara threatening Britain’s Ash Trees.
Published: Wednesday, 5th December 2012
Edinburgh based SRUC Plant Pathologist Dr. James Fountaine is to join the Board of the British Society of Plant Pathology.
Published: Wednesday, 5th December 2012
The Animal and Veterinary Sciences Research Division recently welcomed visitors from the Brazilian agri-business and research organisation Embrapa.
Published: Wednesday, 28th November 2012
SRUC has launched a survey of Scotland’s dairy farmers to investigate their views on practices that may improve their businesses’ financial and environmental performance.
Published: Wednesday, 14th November 2012
Dr Sarah Skerratt has been appointed Head of SRUC’s Land Economy and Environment Research Group. She will also take on the role of Reader in Rural Society with both positions starting on 1st December
Published: Wednesday, 14th November 2012
Sustainable Ecosystems Team Leader, Dr Davy McCracken, has been appointed to the Conservation Committee of the Scottish Wildlife Trust.
Published: Wednesday, 7th November 2012
The SRUC-led scheme that investigates why marine mammals strand on Scottish beaches celebrated its 20th birthday with a major conference attended by marine specialists from across the UK.
Published: Wednesday, 24th October 2012
A new book by SRUC Plant Pathologist Dr Gareth Hughes explains the theory behind many of the practical recommendations that help farmers decide how to control crop infections.
Published: Wednesday, 17th October 2012
Surveillance figures collected by SAC Consulting Veterinary Service (a division of SRUC) show a high level of liver fluke infection in both sheep and cattle throughout Scotland.
Published: Wednesday, 17th October 2012
Second year postgraduate student Marta Piotrowska’s recent presentation at a Syngenta-organised conference won her the top award.
Published: Wednesday, 10th October 2012
Local dairy farmers turned out in force for the specialist Dairy Event held at the Barony Campus by Scotland’s Rural College, SRUC.
Published: Wednesday, 10th October 2012
Scotland may struggle to meet its environmental targets if CAP reform is delayed further.
Published: Wednesday, 10th October 2012
A research paper by SRUC’s Dr. Ian Bingham (Crop and Soils Systems) and colleagues at the James Hutton Institute was selected as “Paper of the Month” by the European journal of Agronomy.
Published: Friday, 14th September 2012
An SAC study on intensive grassland farms in Ayrshire has raised questions over the size and management of the fenced off margins created beside watercourses.
Published: Monday, 3rd September 2012
The Roslin Institute Building, shared by SAC and University of Edinburgh is opening its doors on the afternoon of Saturday 8th September, from 1.00pm until 4.00.
Published: Monday, 3rd September 2012
Assistant researcher Siân Ringrose has just returned from Canada and a quest to learn about international rural policy, knowledge mobilization (KMb) and programmes integrating research into practice.
Published: Monday, 3rd September 2012
The facilities at SAC’s Crichton Royal Farm are being used to host a meeting of the European Maize Growers Association during September 10th and 11th.
Published: Monday, 3rd September 2012
A recent visit to SAC by Professor Zhu Wei-Yun, Head of the College of Animal Sciences, Nanjing Agricultural University, marked another step in the development of relations with the University.
Published: Monday, 20th August 2012
SAC and RSPB Scotland have announced an official partnership aimed at making SAC’s Crichton Royal Dairy Research Farm in Dumfries an exemplar for wildlife-friendly dairy farming.
Published: Monday, 20th August 2012
Dr Sarah Skerratt, SAC’s Rural Society Research Team leader, has been appointed as a Vice-Chair of the Land Reform Review Group.
Published: Tuesday, 7th August 2012
SAC is hosting an open day on its Kirkton and Auchtertyre hill farms near Crianlarich, to inform farmers and crofters about new research projects now underway.
Published: Monday, 6th August 2012
SAC is involving 4000 UK farms in research to improve knowledge of how the on-farm management of pregnant animals influences the health, welfare and productivity of their offspring later in life.
Published: Tuesday, 24th July 2012
In response to today’s Scottish Government announcement that Dr Sarah Skerratt as been appointed Vice-chair of the Land Reform Review Group, SAC Chief Executive and Principal Professor Bob Webb said:
Published: Monday, 23rd July 2012
SAC soil specialist Dr Bruce Ball endured record low temperatures and dumps of snow in Canterbury in New Zealand’s South Island.
Published: Friday, 20th July 2012
SAC researcher Dr. Davy McCracken was in Brussels recently for a conference and the launch of a new book on High Nature Value farming (HNV) to which he contributed.
Published: Monday, 16th July 2012
Research carried out by SAC features in a new book on High Nature Value Farming which will be launched on Thursday in Brussels.
Published: Friday, 6th July 2012
Dr Mizeck Chagunda, the well respected senior researcher at SAC’s Dairy Research Centre in Dumfries was presented with the 2012 Inverarity Award during SAC’s annual graduation ceremony.
Published: Friday, 6th July 2012
Researcher Dr Jos Houdijk has been awarded a Readership in Animal Nutrition and Health at SAC’s annual Graduation ceremony, held in Bute Halls, University of Glasgow, on Friday 6th July.
Published: Friday, 6th July 2012
SAC’s, Ayr based Head of Avian Science, Dr. Nick Sparks, has been conferred with a Personal Professorship during the annual graduation ceremony in Bute Hall, University of Glasgow.
Published: Friday, 6th July 2012
SAC has awarded a Readership to Dr Eileen Wall, who is increasingly recognised as an international authority on the role of livestock in greenhouse gas emissions.
Published: Friday, 6th July 2012
Dr. Marie Haskell, an internationally recognised SAC expert in the behaviour and welfare of dairy cows, has been awarded a Readership.
Published: Wednesday, 20th June 2012
The drought in the south of England may have ended for the moment, but many crops in the Lothians and Borders have been at the other end of the water stress scale.
Published: Monday, 18th June 2012
Parents are always anxious to protect their young from infection and now research by SAC has shown that crops like barley can pass on defence against threats of disease to their offspring.
Published: Tuesday, 12th June 2012
Christine Watson Team Leader SAC Crop and Soil Systems, has been spending 3 months at SLU (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) in Uppsala on an OECD Fellowship.
Published: Tuesday, 12th June 2012
Dr Sarah Skerratt, SAC Senior Researcher and leader of the Rural Society Research Team, has joined the Board of the Rural Housing Service (RHS) in Scotland.
Published: Tuesday, 12th June 2012
SAC Ecological Economics Researcher Salman Hussain presented the findings of a United Nations biodiversity study to a panel of world leading economists at the recent Copenhagen Consensus.
Published: Monday, 11th June 2012
Third year SAC PhD student, Sophie Eaglen, pipped researchers from SAC and Scotland’s other Main Research Providers to win the 2012 Inter-Institute PhD competition.
Published: Wednesday, 6th June 2012
While the accusations linking modern farming with falling wild bird populations often make the headlines, the positive steps farmers are taking to help the situation receive less attention.
Published: Tuesday, 29th May 2012
Research links between SAC’s Auchincruive-based researchers and scientists from Germany and Denmark are helping to increase our understanding of pain in animals.
Published: Tuesday, 29th May 2012
Lord Taylor of Holbeach, the Parliamentary Under Secretary at DEFRA, recently visited SAC to see at first hand the research being carried out with DEFRA funding.
Published: Sunday, 27th May 2012
National policies must be better tailored and localised for supporting rural Scotland, argues a new SAC Rural Policy Centre report.
Published: Tuesday, 22nd May 2012
Ask the average consumer whether poultry should lead better lives and the answer is affirmative and simple.
Published: Thursday, 17th May 2012
A group of 14 students from Iowa State University include SAC Edinburgh in their recent UK study tour of Farm animal Welfare.
Published: Thursday, 17th May 2012
After the recent SAC trip to the warmth of Brazil it was the turn of a small, hardy party of Brazilians to brave May in the Pentlands and visit SAC’s research facilities outside Edinburgh.
Published: Thursday, 17th May 2012
SAC Professors, Geoff Simm and David McKenzie have just returned from a productive visit to China.
Published: Thursday, 17th May 2012
An epidemiologist from France is the first winner of the SVEPM SAC Prize.
Published: Tuesday, 15th May 2012
A series of four early summer, free events for livestock farmers are being planned to discuss research underway into a debilitating cattle disease.
Published: Tuesday, 1st May 2012
A delegation of senior officials from Shandong in China saw some of SAC’s leading research projects during a visit to Scotland.
Published: Tuesday, 1st May 2012
SAC PhD student Naomi Fox collected her Presidents Prize at the recent British Society of Animal Science conference in Nottingham.
Published: Tuesday, 1st May 2012
Dr Steve Hoad, of SAC’s Crop and Soil Systems Group, has been successful in winning one of nine new industry-relevant crop science projects forming part of the Crop Improvement Research Club (CIRC).
Published: Tuesday, 1st May 2012
An SAC-led party of 19 UK scientists has returned from the Brazilian capital Brasilia.
Published: Tuesday, 1st May 2012
Researcher Marianna Markantoni defends her PhD at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands this week.
Published: Tuesday, 1st May 2012
This is a time when oilseed rape growers are nervous about crop disease.
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