Agriculture & Business Management

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2026

• 13 Active
• 25 Finished

Projects per year

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  HoloRuminant: Understanding microbiomes of the ruminant holobiont.

  Dewhurst, R., Ferguson, H., Roehe, R. & Newbold, J.

  1/04/21 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research

  • microbiome 100%
  • ruminants 88%
  • phenotype 24%
  • multiomics 18%
  • life events 17%

• Methane-inhibiting livestock feed supplements: review of net impacts, barriers to success and consumer acceptance

  Duthie, C., Newbold, J., Miller, G. & Vigors, B.

  8/02/21 → 8/08/21

  Project: Research

  • livestock feeds 100%
  • consumer acceptance 94%
  • methane 74%
  • feed additives 25%
  • food supply chain 21%

• Scoping Study on the Opportunities and Barriers of Improved Forages for Livestock Sustainability and Productivity

  Watson, C., Newbold, J. & Topp, K.

  1/02/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • forage 100%
  • exercise 92%
  • livestock 80%
  • industry 64%

• WWC: The Winter Wheat Challenge

  Bingham, I., Hilton, A., Reynolds, A. & Hoad, S.

  1/09/20 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • agronomy 100%
  • funding 87%
  • decision making 80%
  • staff 77%
  • first-year student 65%

• Dairy Sensors: Identifying best sensor technologies to deliver verifiable health and welfare, environment and processing quality benefits for Dairy Products

  Dewhurst, R., Ferguson, H. & Haskell, M.

  1/08/20 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • dairy products 100%
  • processing quality 97%
  • milk production 91%
  • sensors (equipment) 89%
  • environmental technology 51%

• Climate Smart Cattle Farming: Development of novel technologies, solutions and systems to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in animal production systems

  Rees, B., Eory, V., Hargreaves, P. & Hoebe, P.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) Technologies to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions intensity of pasture-based cattle systems

  Dewhurst, R., Nicoll, L., Duthie, C., Broadbent, C., Miller, G., Bowen, J. & Ferguson, H.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/10/19 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Elucidating bovine host genomic links with rumen microbial genes to improve sustainably feed conversion efficiency using unique selection criteria

  Roehe, R. & Dewhurst, R.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  1/05/19 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Microbiota 66%
  • Methane 61%
  • Cattle 38%
  • Microbial Genetics 37%

• Legumes Translated

  Revoredo Giha, C., Topp, K., Dewhurst, R., Costa Font, M., MacPherson, L., Houdijk, J., Flockhart, J., Walker, R., Hargreaves, P., Lawson, D., Newbold, J., Fischer-Moller, M. & Watson, C.

  European Commission

  1/11/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

• Agri CIEL - Re-defining nutrition standards for improving beef production efficiency

  Dewhurst, R., Miller, G. & Bowen, J.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• SMARTCOW : An integrated infrastructure for increased research capability and innovation in the European cattle sector

  Duthie, C., Ramsay, N., Dwyer, C., Ferguson, H., Flockhart, J., Haskell, M., Dickinson, J. & McCubbin, I.

  European Commission

  1/02/18 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • cattle 100%
  • physiology 66%
  • infrastructure 56%
  • methodology 27%
  • ethics 27%

• Dairy 4 Future - Propagating innovations for more resilient dairy farming in the Atlantic area

  Dewhurst, R., Ramsay, N., March, M., Hargreaves, P. & Ferguson, H.

  European Commission

  1/10/17 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

• Soils Programme Research Partnership: Management for Soil Biology and Health

  Jones, S., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Dussart, F., Watson, C., Parker, J. & Griffiths, B.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/01/17 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• Finished

  NZL: Carbon net zero & UK livestock systems

  Rees, B., Buckingham, S., Dewhurst, R., Sykes, A. & Bell, J.

  1/05/20 → 31/08/20

  Project: Research

  • livestock 100%
  • carbon 49%
  • land use 29%

• Sefari Spark_Developing guidelines and policies for sustainable grassland systems

  Cole, L., Roberts, D., March, M., Watson, C., McCracken, D. & Maynard, C.

  RESAS

  20/02/20 → 31/05/21

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.1 Crop and grassland production and disease control

  Creissen, H., Harrison, B., Gorniak, K., Bain, R., Yoxall, T., Paterson, L., Evans, A., Burnett, F., Havis, N. & Laing, A.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• RESAS Centres of Expertise: CxC

  Barnes, A., Hyslop, J., Bell, J., Rees, B., Eory, V., Leinonen, I., Flockhart, J. & MacLeod, M.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.3 Productive and sustainable land management

  Wall, E., Smith, S., Nicoll, L., Parker, J., Robertson, D., Davidson, R., Donbavand, J., Anderson, C., Roehe, R., Harrison, B., Purcell, L., Duthie, C., Gunn, G., Pritchard, T., Jones, S., Bagnall, A., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Archibald, I., Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K., Edwards, T., Buckingham, S., March, M., Broadbent, C., Cloy, J., Hargreaves, P., Wishart, H., Griffiths, B., Fox, N., Sparks, N., Shrestha, S., Banos, G., Henry, M., Watson, C., Dickinson, J., Topp, K., Burnett, F., Kyle, J., Denholm, S., Dewhurst, R., Lawson, D., McCubbin, I., Dwyer, C., Holland, J., McCracken, D., Barratt, A., Havis, N., Stanisz-Migal, M., Miller, G., Bowen, J., Hutchings, M., Creissen, H., D'Eath, R., Baddeley, J., Houdijk, J., Coffey, M., Morgan-Davies, C., Walker, R., Turner, S., Haskell, M., Barnes, A., Athanasiadou, S., Cole, L., Sandilands, V., McLaren, A., MacLeod, M. & Smith, L.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Methane 91%
  • Microbiota 66%
  • Cattle 53%
  • Fibrobacter 51%

• Pathways of Diffuse Pollution to the Water Environment; state of knowledge and communicating best practice

  Cloy, J., Crooks, B., Elrick, G., Hargreaves, P. & Murphy, S.

  11/02/19 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Provision of analysis to quantify non-CO2 abatement in the UK agriculture sector by 2050, with an emphasis on the potential for innovative and novel measures

  Eory, V., Rees, B., Topp, K., Dewhurst, R. & Wall, E.

  3/01/19 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• STEM database for Scottish Secondary Schools (Data-4-Schools)

  March, M.

  12/11/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Follow up development of nutrition modelling and farm rationing software

  Dewhurst, R.

  1/08/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• ICE Robotics Lying time curve

  Haskell, M., Duthie, C. & March, M.

  1/06/18 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• RESAS Strategic Research Programme 2016-21 WP2.1 Crop and grassland production and disease control

  Hoad, S., Crawford, C., Bingham, I., Hoebe, P., Brennan, M., Paterson, L., Topp, K., Baddeley, J., Miller, S., Stanisz-Migal, M., Taylor, J., Harrison, B., Baker, L., Gorniak, K., Whyte, F., Bain, R., Yoxall, T., Laing, A., Griffiths, B., Watson, C., Evans, A., Burnett, F., Irvine, S., Lawson, D., Havis, N., Creissen, H., Dussart, F., Houdijk, J., Walker, R. & Swaney, J.

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Transition paths to sustainable legume based systems in Europe (TRUE)

  Rees, B., Toma, L., Olukosi, O., March, M., Akaichi, F., Shrestha, S. & Barnes, A.

  European Commission

  1/04/17 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Fabaceae 100%
  • legumes 87%
  • nutrition 68%
  • Carbon Footprint 64%
  • Livestock 59%

• Understanding short-term measurement techniques and proxies for methane emissions from cattle

  Dewhurst, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/16 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

• Enhanced monitoring systems for improved health management of dairy-bred beef youngstock

  Duthie, C., Mason, C., Haskell, M., Parker, J. & McCubbin, I.

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/09/16 → 30/11/20

  Project: Research

• Development of an easy to use metagenomics platform for agricultural science

  Dewhurst, R.

  European Commission

  1/04/16 → 30/11/19

  Project: Research

  • Rumen 100%
  • Methane 91%
  • Microbial Genes 89%
  • Biomarkers 82%
  • methane 64%

• TANZANIA: Investigation of farmer-led breeding goals and strategies

  Dewhurst, R.

  2/02/16 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

  • cattle productivity 100%
  • Breeding 73%
  • Sub-Saharan Africa 71%
  • Africa South of the Sahara 69%
  • dairy cattle 61%

• Stress effects on the ovine rumen microbiome

  Dewhurst, R.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/12/15 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

• Whole farm modelling of specialist beef systems in Scotland and Ireland

  Dewhurst, R.

  1/10/15 → 30/09/19

  Project: Research

• TANZANIA: The use of cow-side milk progesterone tests

  Dewhurst, R.

  1/09/15 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• PrecisionBeef

  Ross, D., Duthie, C., Hyslop, J., Rooke, J. & Dewhurst, R.

  1/04/15 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

  • feeding behavior 100%
  • finishing 94%
  • beef 92%
  • feed intake 86%
  • animals 81%

• The BUG consortium Building upon the genome: Using H. contortus genomic resources to develop novel interventions to control endemic GI parasites

  Milne, C., Stott, A. & Pate, L.

  REF Funding

  28/03/15 → 27/03/21

  Project: Research

• Improving the sustainability and competitive position of the UK beef industry through selective breeding

  Wall, E., Pritchard, T., Dewhurst, R., Coffey, M. & Moran, D.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  1/01/15 → 30/07/19

  Project: Research

• Improved timing of curative blight fungicides for superior control of late blight and greater cost effectiveness

  Bain, R.

  1/10/14 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• Improving the control of liver fluke infection in cattle in the UK - FLAG

  Tongue, S., Stott, A., Weldegebriel, H., Vosough Ahmadi, B., Milne, C., Gomes, C., Eze, J., Henry, M. & Barratt, A.

  1/10/13 → 31/07/18

  Project: Research

• Increasing efficiency of dietary nitrogen use in dairy systems

  Roberts, D., Bagnall, A., Flockhart, J., Bell, D., Dickinson, J. & McCubbin, I.

  21/06/12 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research