Scotland's Rural College

Projects

Projects per year 2012 2026

• 1 Curtailed
• 9 Not started
• 145 Active
• 260 Finished

Projects per year

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  Management of Macallan Sludge Disposal 2021/22

  Buchanan, A.

  10/09/21 → 9/09/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • sludge 100%
  • regulation 70%

• Fasque Woodland Creation Project Management

  Law, B., Young, M., Townsend, B. & O'Keeffe, L.

  1/09/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • contractors 100%
  • fences 77%
  • planting 48%
  • woodlands 46%
  • consultants 39%

• Ralia Woodland Creation Project Management

  Law, B., Young, M., Townsend, B. & O'Keeffe, L.

  1/09/21 → 31/08/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • forestry 100%
  • woodlands 83%
  • environmental assessment 31%
  • peat 18%
  • screening 12%

• CxC GHG emissions reduction targets in Scottish agriculture

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

  3/08/21 → 26/11/21

  Project: Research

• Easter Kinnear - Xero Accounting Bookkeeping Service & Software Subscription

  Melville, N.

  1/08/21 → 31/03/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Bookkeeping 100%
  • Software Services 64%
  • Subscription 55%
  • Online Services 36%
  • Tax 19%

• 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%

• Natures Way Foods Carbon Audit Plan

  Bell, J., Kamilaris, H. & Forrest, J.

  25/06/21 → 24/06/26

  Project: Consultancy

• On SEFARI Scotland with the COP26

  Cole, L.

  1/06/21 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

  • climate change 100%

• Kelda Land Bank Management

  Graham, L. & Sinclair, A.

  1/06/21 → 31/05/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Bank Management 100%

• Dovecote Park Carbon Auditing

  Bell, J., Kamilaris, H. & Forrest, J.

  21/05/21 → 20/05/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Carbon 100%
  • License 91%
  • Auditing 86%
  • Consulting 84%

• 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%

• Scottish Enterprise Rural Leadership Programme Extension

  Williams, K.

  5/05/21 → 30/04/22

  Project: Consultancy

• Loch Eriboll fine scale priority marine feature and fish habitat spatial ecology (place holder).

  Burns, N., Bailey, D. M. & Hopkins, C. R.

  3/05/21 → 29/10/21

  Project: Other

  • baseline survey 100%
  • sustainable fisheries 97%
  • habitat 86%
  • ecology 81%
  • fish 73%

• Tropical peatland climate resilience: Transferring governance of Climate risks for poverty reduction in Indonesia, Peru and the Congo Basin

  Reed, M., Williams, A., Maynard, C. & Beechener, S.

  30/04/21 → 29/04/23

  Project: Research

• 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%

• Data-driven control and prioritisation of non-EU-regulated contagious animal diseases (DECIDE)

  Boerlage, A. & Gunn, G.

  1/04/21 → 31/03/26

  Project: Research

  • animal diseases 100%
  • disease control programs 91%
  • burden of disease 90%
  • prioritization 82%
  • veterinarians 67%

• 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%

• Agrecalc Carbon Report & Reduce

  Bell, J. & Kamilaris, H.

  1/04/21 → 31/03/26

  Project: Consultancy

  • Carbon 100%

• 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%

• Separating fibre from feed – the role of gut fungi in ruminant digestion

  van Munster, J.

  1/03/21 → 1/03/22

  Project: Research

  • digestive system 100%
  • ruminants 78%
  • digestion 73%
  • dietary fiber 71%
  • fungi 66%

• Using camera traps to quantify the effect of deer on woodland restoration

  Fuentes-Montemayor, E.

  1/03/21 → 28/02/23

  Project: Research

  • woodland 100%
  • deer 79%
  • biodiversity 21%
  • deforestation 14%
  • project 11%

• 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%

• Understanding precision livestock farming adoption in the US swine industry: Examining needs, perceptions, and willingness to pay of users and consumers

  Turner, S., Vigors, B. & Akaichi, F.

  1/02/21 → 31/01/23

  Project: Research

  • Willingness-to-pay 100%
  • Swine 91%
  • Livestock 67%
  • Farming 60%
  • United States of America 24%

• 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%

• 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%

• 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%

• Understanding Pesticide Use in Nature conservation

  Chapman, P. & Riddell, I.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • nature conservation 100%
  • recommendation 93%
  • pesticide 81%
  • decision 39%

• Sm@rt: Small Ruminant Technology

  Morgan-Davies, C.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/23

  Project: Research

  • small ruminants 100%
  • farmers 38%
  • rural society 20%
  • livestock 20%
  • rural economics 17%

• "Scottish Farm Advisory Service Component 2: One-to-Many Farm Advisory Services Contract Extension For The Period 1 January 2021 until 31 December 2021"

  Bauer, A.

  1/01/21 → 31/12/21

  Project: Consultancy

  • farms 100%

• A96 Stage 3 Agricultural Impact Assessment Huntly to Aberdeen dualling

  Salter, F., Boyd, I. & Graham, L.

  1/01/21 → 28/05/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Impact Assessment 100%
  • Roads 50%

• Resilient dairy: socio-technical innovation for dairy resilience and sustainability

  Reed, M. & Williams, A.

  7/12/20 → 31/12/21

  Project: Research

• VWI Cambridge: Exploring Fundamental Values for the Valuing Water Initiative

  Glenk, K. & Schulz, C.

  2/12/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Other

  • water 100%
  • document 62%
  • valuation 57%
  • world 46%
  • decision making 40%

• 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%

• The UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank

  Holden, N.

  1/10/20 → 30/09/25

  Project: Research

  • crop 100%
  • project 54%
  • health 47%
  • hunger 46%
  • bioinformatics 42%

• Contract for provision of a carbon footprint calculator service

  Bell, J.

  1/10/20 → 30/09/23

  Project: Consultancy

  • Carbon Footprint 100%
  • Service Provision 84%

• Provision of a livestock enterprise costing and carbon footprint survey and analysis to provide benchmark information for cattle and sheep farmers in Scotland.

  Riddell, I., Hill, G., Bothwell, C., Inman, G. & Sykes, A.

  1/10/20 → 31/10/22

  Project: Consultancy

  • Costing 100%
  • Online Databases 97%
  • Audit 91%
  • Carbon Footprint 87%
  • Cattle 85%

• AHDB Farm Excellence Platform Carbon Auditing (ITT 7287)

  Bell, J.

  24/09/20 → 24/09/21

  Project: Consultancy

  • Carbon 100%
  • Farm 65%
  • Excellence 53%
  • Mitigation 35%
  • Audit 35%

• EWSFS: Provision of services to analyse the potential economic effects of the Sustainable Farming Scheme on the agricultural sector in Wales

  Thomson, S.

  16/09/20 → 31/10/21

  Project: Research

  • Farm 100%
  • Wales 94%
  • Economic Effect 87%
  • Farming 86%
  • Agricultural Sector 84%

• 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%

• Smart sheep: Precision livestock farming and sustainable sheep production

  Morgan-Davies, C., McLaren, A. & Wishart, H.

  1/08/20 → 31/01/22

  Project: Research

  • electronic identification 72%
  • sheep 64%
  • farmers 35%
  • farms 26%
  • community farming 22%

• Improving the Mental Health of Farmers

  Stephen, K., Henry, M., Humphry, R., Gunn, G. & Baughan, J.

  1/07/20 → 30/06/22

  Project: Research

  • Farmers 100%
  • Agriculture 99%
  • Mental Health 67%
  • Data Analysis 64%

• Dairy_Core Evaluations

  Coffey, M., Tahir, U., Mrode, R., Krzyzelewski, T., Kaseja, K., Wells, A. & Cosso, M.

  AHDB/DAIRY CO

  1/04/20 → 31/03/25

  Project: Research

  • Northern Africa 100%
  • Humidity 85%
  • Climate 83%
  • Heat-Shock Response 80%
  • dairy cattle 71%

• ARC Zero NI Farm Carbon Project

  Bell, J., Forrest, J., Sellars, A., MacPherson, L., Ramsay, R. & Bothwell, C.

  1/04/20 → 31/03/23

  Project: Consultancy

  • Carbon 100%
  • Farm 59%

• Determining how cognitive ability and affective state impact assessment strategies during aggressive contests to improve pig welfare after regrouping

  Turner, S., Futro, A. & Brims, M.

  B.b.s.r.c.

  2/03/20 → 1/03/23

  Project: Research

• EuroSheep

  Morgan-Davies, C.

  European Commission

  1/01/20 → 31/12/22

  Project: Research

• Garnock Connections: Garnock's buzzing

  Cole, L., Robertson, D. & Harrison, B.

  RSPB

  9/10/19 → 31/03/22

  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