Scotland's Rural College

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2018 2019 2021 2022 2023 2031

• 1 Curtailed
• 11 Not started
• 192 Active
• 606 Finished

Projects per year

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  Evaluation of the effect of treated/untreated feed ingredients for ruminant's diet on gas production over time

  Ramos-Morales, E. (PI)

  15/09/18 → 15/10/19

  Project: Research

• Activity of fungicides against Ramularia leaf spot

  Havis, N. (PI), Gorniak, K. (CoI), Yoxall, T. (CoI) & Walker, R. (CoI)

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  1/09/18 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• Rat tickling as a model to understand and improve positive welfare in confined animals

  Lawrence, A. (PI)

  SRUC internal funding

  1/09/18 → 30/11/22

  Project: Research

• Variety trials for AHDB's Recommended List: trial crop - Winter wheat

  Hoad, S. (PI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/09/18 → 31/08/19

  Project: Research

• Cattle breeding choices : reconciling productivity, sustainability and food security objectives

  Glenk, K. (Supervisor) & Eory, V. (Supervisor)

  1/09/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: PhD project

• Evaluation of controlled dietary interventions in the gastrointestinal microflora of normal, obese and geriatric ponies

  Morrison, P. (PI)

  Mars Petcare UK

  15/08/18 → 31/10/20

  Project: Research

  • Horse Care 100%
  • Farrier 100%

• Application of B & G Label Products to Grass

  Lawson, D. (PI)

  15/08/18 → 1/12/19

  Project: Research

• Gill health in Scottish farmed salmon

  Stirling, J. (CoI), Pearce, M. (CoI), Humphry, R. (CoI), Hutchinson, I. (CoI), Baughan, J. (CoI), Boerlage, A. (PI) & Eze, J. (CoI)

  University of Stirling

  10/08/18 → 1/07/24

  Project: Research

  • Salmonine 100%
  • Infectious Agent 59%
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction 47%
  • Sample Size 41%
  • Microbiome 40%

• SARIC Translation: Grassland Management

  Topp, K. (PI)

  Natural Environment Research Council

  1/08/18 → 31/12/20

  Project: Research

  • Grassland 100%
  • User Interface 100%
  • Simulation Model 100%
  • Lolium 100%
  • Nitrogen Mineralization 100%

• Follow up development of nutrition modelling and farm rationing software

  Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  1/08/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

• Host pathogen interactions important in the movement of Campylobacter jejuni from the broiler chicken gut to edible tissues (CampAttack)

  Sparks, N. (PI)

  Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

  1/08/18 → 31/07/21

  Project: Research

  • Campylobacter Jejuni 100%
  • Broiler 100%
  • Campylobacter 100%
  • Host-Pathogen Interaction 100%
  • Broiler Chickens 100%

• Legume SELECT: Science-driven evaluation of legume choice for transformed livelihoods

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  1/07/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Kenya 100%
  • Smallholder 66%
  • Ethiopia 50%
  • Farming System 50%
  • Congo 50%

• Living on the bank of the Garnock

  Cole, L. (PI) & Robertson, D. (CoI)

  AYRSHIRE RIVERS TRUST

  1/07/18 → 30/06/20

  Project: Research

• Nitrogen and sulphur fertiliser management to achieve grain protein quality targets of high yielding modern winter milling wheat

  Hoad, S. (PI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/07/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

• Agronomic and disease control techniques to produce a profitable winter barley crop

  Creissen, H. (PI)

  MAINS OF LOIRSTON TRUST

  1/07/18 → 30/12/21

  Project: Research

• Provision of agronomic trials for cultivation and use 2018-2023 Lot 2

  Hoad, S. (PI) & Walker, R. (CoI)

  Scottish Government

  30/06/18 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

• Estimating the economic costs of bovine TB incidents on cattle farms in the high risk edge areas of England and Wales

  Barnes, A. (PI), Stott, A. (CoI), Toma, L. (CoI), Vosough Ahmadi, B. (CoI), Barratt, A. (CoI) & Hutchings, M. (CoI)

  18/06/18 → 31/10/19

  Project: Research

• To support the South Atlantic NCA project by providing ecosystem services valuation and Bayesian modelling expertise

  McVittie, A. (PI) & Glenk, K. (CoI)

  18/06/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• ICE Robotics Lying time curve

  Haskell, M. (PI), Duthie, C.-A. (CoI) & March, M. (CoI)

  1/06/18 → 31/05/19

  Project: Research

• Veterinary Epidemiology Consultancy: Assessing relationships between farmed salmon mortality and levels of known or putative pathogens of salmon

  Reeves, A. (PI)

  21/05/18 → 30/06/18

  Project: Research

• migrant workers in scottish agriculture: a short film

  Atterton, J. (PI), McMorran, R. (CoI) & Jones, S. (CoI)

  14/05/18 → 31/07/19

  Project: Research

• Profit through pollination - demonstration farm project

  Cole, L. (PI), Robertson, D. (CoI) & Harrison, B. (CoI)

  Soil Association Scotland

  1/05/18 → 30/04/20

  Project: Research

• Replacement of contentious inputs in organic farming systems (RELACS)

  Athanasiadou, S. (PI) & Hutchings, M. (CoI)

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Anthelmintic 100%
  • Gastrointestinal Nematodes 89%
  • Teladorsagia circumcincta 82%
  • Organic Farming 59%
  • Organic Farming System 54%

• Low-Input Farming and Territories - Integrating knowledge for improving ecosystem-based farming

  Barnes, A. (PI), Toma, L. (CoI), Shrestha, S. (CoI), Ferreira, J. (CoI), Thompson, B. (CoI), McCracken, D. (CoI) & Latto, D. (Other)

  European Commission

  1/05/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Farming System 100%
  • Europeans 100%
  • Agricultural Policy 75%
  • Ecological Farming 62%
  • Agroforestry 50%

• Feed Wheat

  Newbold, J. (PI)

  4/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Rapid diagnostics and control strategies for enteric bacterial pathogens in back yard and commercial poultry production in Thailand and the Phillippines

  Sparks, N. (PI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/21

  Project: Research

• Delivery of on farm education visits

  Conington, J. (PI), Gordon, J. (CoI), McLean, K. (CoI) & Steel, M. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/20

  Project: Research

• CTLGH Identification and selection of targets and development of analytical tools to optimize breeding programmes in African chicken populations

  Banos, G. (PI), Coffey, M. (CoI) & Sparks, N. (CoI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/10/22

  Project: Research

  • Transcriptome 100%
  • Bird 100%
  • Campylobacter 100%
  • Quantitative Trait Locus 100%
  • Major Histocompatibility Complex 60%

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

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

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Tailtech: developing an early warning system for pig tail biting

  D'Eath, R. (PI)

  Innovate UK

  1/04/18 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Pig 100%
  • Tail 100%

• Innovations in aquaculture: Delivering operational methods for the control of infectious disease

  Hutchings, M. (PI) & Davidson, R. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• Towards BIOSmart livestock farming in Colombia: cultural landscape, silvo-pastoral systems and biodiversity

  Barnes, A. (PI) & Botero Degiovanni, H. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Silvopastoral Systems 100%
  • Farm Animal 60%
  • Agroforestry 50%
  • Sweep Nets 50%
  • Hemiptera 50%

• Bean breeding and Adoption in changing climates in post-conflict COlombia (BACO)

  Barnes, A. (PI) & Botero Degiovanni, H. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Phaseolus vulgaris 100%
  • Climate Change 66%
  • Growers 50%
  • Common Bean 50%
  • Phaseolus vulgaris L. 16%

• Garnock's buzzing

  Cole, L. (PI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

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

  Creissen, H. (PI), Gorniak, K. (CoI), Bain, R. (CoI), Yoxall, T. (CoI), Paterson, L. (CoI), Evans, A. (CoI), Burnett, F. (CoI) & Havis, N. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

  • Biosecurity 100%
  • Plant Health 100%
  • Case Study 40%
  • Plant Pests 20%
  • Horticulture 20%

• Physiological characterization of heat-tolerant bean genotypes in simulated future environments to enhance postconflict regional development

  Barnes, A. (PI) & Botero Degiovanni, H. (CoI)

  1/04/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• CTLGH African cattle genomic reference resource, SNP assays, and signature of selections

  Wall, E. (PI) & Mwacharo, J. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Africans 85%
  • Evolutionary Adaptation 85%
  • Dynamics 85%
  • Genetic Structure 85%

• CTLGH Genetic and genomic evaluation delivery tools

  Wall, E. (PI), Mwacharo, J. (PI) & Mrode, R. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/04/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research

  • Farm Animal 100%
  • Africans 85%
  • Evolutionary Adaptation 85%
  • Dynamics 85%
  • Genetic Structure 85%

• Database and reporting system to support Signet's Sheepbreeder and Beefbreeder Services

  Krzyzelewski, T. (PI), Wells, A. (CoI) & Coffey, M. (CoI)

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/04/18 → 3/03/24

  Project: Research

  • Sheep 100%
  • Animal Genetics 100%
  • Tissue Distribution 33%
  • X-Ray Computed Tomography 33%
  • Artificial Intelligence 33%

• The development of an alternative method to high concentration CO2 for the commercial stunning of pigs

  Baxter, E. (PI), Akaichi, F. (CoI) & Farish, M. (CoI)

  19/03/18 → 31/07/20

  Project: Research

  • Hypoxia 100%
  • Carbon Dioxide 80%
  • Sclera 75%
  • Physiological Response 75%
  • Pig 75%

• Updating Nitrogen and Sulphur fertiliser recommendations for spring barley and potatoes

  Hoad, S. (PI), Sinclair, A. (CoI) & Bingham, I. (CoI)

  AHDB Cereals & Oilseeds

  1/03/18 → 30/04/21

  Project: Research

  • Sulfur Fertilizers 100%
  • Grains 100%
  • Spring Barley 100%
  • Nitrogen Fertilizer 100%
  • Potential Yield 100%

• Benchmarking sustainable intensification of farms using AgRE Calc, DEA and ScotFarm

  Shrestha, S. (CoI), Vosough Ahmadi, B. (CoI), Thomson, S. (CoI), Spencer, M. (CoI), Barnes, A. (CoI), Stott, A. (CoI), Bell, J. (CoI), Vosough Ahmadi, B. (CoI), Spencer, M. (CoI), Barnes, A. (CoI), Inman, G. (CoI) & Toma, L. (PI)

  SFC GRANT

  1/03/18 → 31/05/20

  Project: Research

• Genetic Evaluations for Danish Genetics Pig Data

  Coffey, M. (PI)

  1/03/18 → 28/02/19

  Project: Research

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

  Dewhurst, R. (PI) & Miller, G. (CoI)

  AHDB Beef & Lamb

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

  • Microbial Proteins 100%
  • Protein Synthesis 100%
  • Rumen 100%
  • Feeds 92%
  • Beef Cattle 92%

• Oilseed Rape Genetic Improvement Network OREGIN

  Burnett, F. (PI) & Havis, N. (CoI)

  1/03/18 → 31/03/23

  Project: Research

• Managing risk through integrated farm management, diversification strategies and education

  Barnes, A. (PI)

  5/02/18 → 31/03/19

  Project: Research

• CAP Intentions Survey 2018

  Barnes, A. (PI), Thomson, S. (CoI), Spencer, M. (CoI) & McMillan, J. (CoI)

  1/02/18 → 30/04/19

  Project: Research

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

  Duthie, C.-A. (CoI), Ramsay, N. (CoI), Dwyer, C. (CoI), Ferguson, H. (CoI), Haskell, M. (CoI), Dickinson, J. (CoI), McCubbin, I. (CoI) & Dewhurst, R. (PI)

  European Commission

  1/02/18 → 30/04/22

  Project: Research

  • Meta-Analysis 100%
  • Feed Efficiency 60%
  • Feeds 60%
  • Feed Conversion 50%
  • Europeans 50%

• Developing sustainable economic and ecological grazing systems - learning from innovative practitioners

  Cloy, J. (CoI), Morgan-Davies, C. (CoI), McVittie, A. (CoI) & Watson, C. (PI)

  CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY & HYDROLOGY(USE ACCOUNT 10151545)

  2/01/18 → 30/06/21

  Project: Research

  • Agricultural Innovation 100%

• CTLGH The contributions made by nutrition and genotype to resilience in poultry

  Sparks, N. (PI)

  University of Edinburgh

  1/01/18 → 31/03/22

  Project: Research