Agriculture, Horticulture And Engineering Sciences

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Projects per year 2012 2016 2017 2018 2019 2021 2026

• 23 Active
• 78 Finished

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  MI BICYCLE: Mitigating climate change by circular synergies between crop and livestock farms

  Watson, C., Topp, K. & Lamont, K.

  1/03/22 → 1/03/25

  Project: Research

  • coproducts 100%
  • farms 98%
  • livestock 90%
  • climate change 82%
  • crops 71%

• Mezquite for broilers: The effect of Mezquite pod inclusion and processing on performance and ilieal digestibility in broilers

  Houdijk, J.

  1/03/22 → 31/05/22

  Project: Research

  • broiler feeding 100%
  • pods 77%
  • digestibility 68%
  • broiler chickens 51%
  • legumes 51%

• Dandelion : Dandelion Festival 2022

  Burnett, F., Rudman, H. & Vichos, R.

  1/10/21 → 31/07/22

  Project: Other

  • festival 100%
  • social isolation 21%
  • budget 20%
  • staff 15%
  • experiment 14%

• Review of opportunities for diversifying UK agriculture through investment in underutilised crops

  Watson, C. & Topp, K.

  1/04/21 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

  • cropping practice 100%
  • sustainability 75%
  • crop 72%
  • agriculture 72%
  • productivity 69%

• 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%

• Quantifying the relative nitrogen use efficiency of foliar and soil applied fertilizer

  Bingham, I., Reilly, Z. & Lindsay, P.

  1/03/21 → 3/03/23

  Project: Research

  • nutrient use efficiency 100%
  • spring barley 80%
  • fertilizers 79%
  • soil 75%
  • winter wheat 64%

• GREENANIMO: STRENGTHENING RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CAPACITY FOR GRAZING LIVESTOCK MEAT PRODUCTION IN BULGARIA THROUGH ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE TRANSFER

  Haskell, M., Duthie, C., Roehe, R. & Lambe, N.

  5/01/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

  • Bulgaria 100%
  • grazing intensity 96%
  • meat production 86%
  • livestock 61%
  • food production 30%

• 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%

• Blunting the blows: using naturally-occurring variation in beak morphology to reduce pecking damage in laying hens

  Sandilands, V. & Struthers, S.

  1/10/19 → 30/09/23

  Project: Research

  • beak 100%
  • bones 69%
  • feather pecking 25%
  • hens 10%
  • phenotype 7%

• 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 → 30/03/23

  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 → 30/03/23

  Project: Research

• ‘Disease management and yield of winter barley grown under different tillage regimes

  Creissen, H.

  1/09/19 → 31/03/24

  Project: Research

• ChickenStress MCSA

  Sandilands, V.

  European Commission

  1/06/19 → 30/04/23

  Project: Research

• Legume Gap: Increasing productivity and sustainability of European plant protein production by closing the grain legume yield gap

  Watson, C. & Topp, K.

  1/04/19 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • legumes 100%
  • faba beans 39%
  • legume protein 37%
  • beans 34%
  • farmers 34%

• South Asian Nitrogen Hub

  Rees, B., Eory, V., Glenk, K. & Begho, T.

  13/02/19 → 29/02/24

  Project: Research

  • Nitrogen 100%
  • Soil 91%
  • Nitrogen Cycle 89%
  • Asia 88%
  • nitrogen 71%

• Encapsulated antimicrobial precursors for non-antibiotic treatment of MDRO in poultry Principal

  Houdijk, J., Whyte, F. & Sparks, N.

  Innovate UK (TSB QUARTERLY)

  1/02/19 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• Do UK grasslands have the ability to sequester more carbon? Assessment of stability and resilience to changing climate and management

  Buckingham, S.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/10/18 → 30/09/22

  Project: Research

• Oilseed Rape Genetic Improvement Network OREGIN

  Burnett, F. & Havis, N.

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  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

• 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

• Delivering the agricultural greenhouse gas and ammonia inventories and projections

  Wall, E., Pritchard, T., Archibald, I. & Rees, B.

  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  4/09/17 → 31/08/22

  Project: Research

• The significance of plant interactions in the design of breeding programmes

  Hoad, S. & Scott, P.

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/17 → 31/12/24

  Project: Research

• Inoculated disease trials: cereals and winter oilseed rape

  Havis, N., Gorniak, K., Yoxall, T., Burnett, F., Laing, A., Fortune, J. & Graham, N.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/16 → 31/07/22

  Project: Research

• Finished

  IPM Non Broadacre Crop Review

  Bowsher-Gibbs, M., Burnett, F. & Creissen, H.

  1/11/21 → 28/02/22

  Project: Consultancy

• Optimisng health and productivity outcomes of dairy bred calves: use of integrated data and alternative management

  Bell, D., Duthie, C., Haskell, M. & Mason, C.

  1/11/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • dairy breeds 100%
  • calves 98%
  • health status 70%
  • rearing 44%
  • lungs 20%

• CR/2021/03: Reducing emissions from agriculture – the role of new technologies

  Barnes, A., Eory, V., Rees, B., Newbold, J., Duthie, C., Bowen, J., Miller, G. & Farquhar, J.

  13/09/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • agriculture 100%
  • new technology 97%

• CxC GHG emissions reduction targets in Scottish agriculture

  Eory, V., Rees, B., Barnes, A. & Topp, K.

  3/08/21 → 26/11/21

  Project: Research

  • emission reduction 100%
  • agriculture 97%

• Understanding farm level environmental indicators and economic performance

  Barnes, A., Toma, L., Eory, V., Rees, B., Topp, K., Glenk, K. & Knocker, L.

  15/07/21 → 25/02/22

  Project: Research

  • Business Survey 100%
  • Environmental Indicators 96%
  • Farm 83%
  • Environmental Economics 73%
  • Econometric Analysis 73%

• PAC: sheep methane recording technology platform

  Conington, J. & Lambe, N.

  21/05/21 → 20/05/22

  Project: Research

  • equipment maintenance and repair 100%
  • portable equipment 93%
  • methane 64%
  • sheep 45%
  • animals 27%

• GREEN-SHED_BEIS

  Duthie, C. & Farquhar, J.

  6/04/21 → 6/01/22

  Project: Research

  • cattle 100%
  • ruminant 84%
  • methane 75%
  • meat 69%
  • project 54%

• IPM-N: Mapping information networks that influence farmer behaviours related to IPM adoption (MINIF)

  Meador, E. & Creissen, H.

  31/03/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

  • information network 100%
  • impact source 54%
  • social survey 53%
  • pest 41%
  • Contractors 35%

• 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%
  • livestock 89%
  • exercise 61%
  • industry 46%
  • forage crops 20%

• SEFARI FELLOWSHIP with the Life Sciences Scotland Industry Leadership Group - Animal Health, Agritech and Aquaculture sub-group

  Bowen, J.

  11/01/21 → 30/09/21

  Project: Other

  • Scotland 100%
  • aquaculture 80%
  • leadership 75%
  • animal health 61%
  • industry 41%

• EtT: Exploring the Twitterverse: Developing novel approaches to scaling the dissemination of expert knowledge on social media platforms in Scotland.

  Meador, E. & Creissen, H.

  1/12/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

  • Soils 100%
  • Health 93%
  • agriculture 53%
  • farmer 37%
  • social network 33%

• IPM T&T: Environmental Land Management - Integrated Pest Management Test and Trial

  Creissen, H., Meador, E. & Evans, A.

  1/12/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Other

  • integrated pest management 100%
  • land management 63%
  • trial 52%
  • behavior change 49%
  • growers 38%

• CalfQUOL: Development of a Health-Related Quality of Life Tool for Bovine Respiratory Disease in Calves

  Haskell, M., Duthie, C. & Mason, C.

  1/11/20 → 1/10/21

  Project: Research

  • bovine respiratory disease 100%
  • quality of life 71%
  • calves 66%
  • pets 10%
  • agricultural colleges 10%

• AHDB Strategic Cereal Farms 2021

  Hoad, S., Watson, C., Cole, L., Burnett, F., Riddell, I., Kinloch, F. & Melville, N.

  1/10/20 → 31/01/22

  Project: Other

  • farm 100%
  • farms 71%
  • farm programs 52%
  • Scotland 46%
  • cost-benefit analysis 31%

• 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%

• Identifying research priorities for the use of Agri-tech to improve productivity efficiency and sustainability in beef & sheep livestock production systems

  Bowen, J.

  James Hutton Limited

  1/02/20 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Effect of Alternative chemistry on Rcc growth

  Havis, N., Crawford, C., Fortune, J., Kasperek, C. & Swaney, J.

  UPL Europe Ltd

  16/12/19 → 30/04/20

  Project: Research

• Review of evidence on Integrated Pest Management

  Creissen, H. & Evans, A.

  RSK ADAS Ltd

  17/10/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• SEFARI Fellowship with NFU Scotland

  Miller, G.

  James Hutton Limited

  23/09/19 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

• Autums survey of wheat bulb fly incidence 2019-21

  Evans, A. & Dussart, F.

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  16/09/19 → 30/09/21

  Project: Research

• Seed treatment and controlled condition experiment

  Havis, N., Crawford, C. & Dussart, F.

  Arysta LifeScience UK and Ireland

  14/06/19 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

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

  Havis, N. & Creissen, H.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  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

• Slurry Trial

  Lawson, D.

  1/04/19 → 31/10/19

  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 WP2.1 Crop and grassland production and disease control

  Hoebe, P., Griffiths, B. & Irvine, S.

  1/04/19 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research